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After each answer, you are given the Chapter, Section, and Objective from the book Introductory Algebra with Basic Mathematics that corresponds to the topic of that question. This book is available for you to use at the CSB/SJU Math Skills Centers. Also given is the title of a tutorial module at the “purplemath” web site: http://www.purplemath.com/modules
Intro. Algebra Tutorials at
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ANS. (textbook)______________________
ch. sec. obj.
1. d 1 1 A
2. b 1 2 B EXPONENTS
3. d 1 2 E TRANSLATION
4. d 1 4 D ORD. OF OPERATIONS
5. d 2 1 C ABSOLUTE VALUE
6. d 2 2 A EVALUATION
7. a 2 2 C NEGATIVE NUMBERS
8. c 2 4 A EVALUATION
9. b 3 2 B FRACTIONS
10. a 3 2 E FRACTIONS
11. a 4 2 C EVALUATION
12. b 4 2 B
13. a 4 3 A PER., DEC., FRAC
14. b 4 3 B PER., DEC., FRAC
15. c 4 3 C PER., DEC., FRAC
16. c 5 1 D POLYNOMIALS
17. c 5 2 A GEOM. FORMULAS
18. b 5 4 A TRANSLATION
19. d 6 2 A WORD PROBS: PERCENT
20. b 6 2 B WORD PROBS: PERCENT
21. b 6 2 B WORD PROBS: PERCENT
22. b 6 3 A SOLVING LINEAR EQ.
23. c 6 3 C SOLVING LINEAR EQ.
24. d 6 6 B INEQUALITIES: LINEAR
25. b 7 1 A X,Y PLANE
26. d 7 1 A X,Y PLANE
27. d 7 1 D GRAPHING LINEAR EQ.
28. d 7 1 D GRAPHING LINEAR EQ.
29. b 7 1 D GRAPHING LINEAR EQ.
30. d 7 4 A
31. c 8 1 B POLY: ADD. & SUBTR.
32. a 8 2 A POLY: MULTIPLYING
33. b 8 2 B EXPONENTS; POLYNOM.
34. b 8 2 D POLY: MULTIPLYING
35. d 8 2 E POLY: MULTIPLYING
36. d 8 3 B POLY: DIVIDING
37. b 8 4 B SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
38. b 9 2 A FACTORING QUADRATICS
39. c 9 4 A SOLVING: QUAD. EQ.
40. c 9 4 B AREA/VOL/PER PROBS.
41. d 10 4 C RATIO & PROPORTION
42. a 10 4 C RATIO & PROPORTION
43. b 10 4 D RATIO & PROPORTION
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