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Includes index.

Unit 1 Getting started with pre-calculus -- Chapter 1 Preparing for pre-calculus -- Chapter 2 Operating with real numbers -- Chapter 3 Cementing the building blocks of pre-calculus functions -- Chapter 4 Operating on functions -- Unit 2 Getting the grip on graphing -- Chapter 5 Graphing polynomial functions -- Chapter 6 Exponential and logarithmic functions -- Chapter 7 Piece-wise and greatest-integer functions -- Unit 3 The essentials of trigonometry -- Chapter 8 Circling in on angles -- Chapter 9 Homing in on the friendliest angles -- Chapter 10 Picturing basic trig functions and reciprocal functions -- Chapter 11 Graphing and transforming trig functions -- Unit 4 Identities and special triangles -- Chapter 12 Identifying with trig identities: the basics -- Chapter 13 Advancing with advanced identities -- Chapter 14 Getting the slant on oblique triangles -- Unit 5 Analytic geometry -- Chapter 15 Coordinating with complex numbers -- Chapter 16 Warming up to polar coordinates -- Chapter 17 Relating conics to sliced cones -- Unit 6 Systems, sequences, and series -- Chapter 18 Streamlining systems of equations -- Chapter 19 Making matrices work -- Chapter 20 Sequences and series -- Unit 7 Onward to calculus -- Chapter 22 Lining up the tools -- Chapter 23 Proceeding with successful procedures.

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