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ACT Math For Dummies

Multiply your chances of success on the ACT Math TestThe ACT Mathematics Test is a 60-question, 60-minute subtest designed to measure the mathematical skills students have typically acquired in courses taken by the end of 11th… (More)

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Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: Getting into the Act: An Overview of ACT Math Basics
Part II: Building Your Pre-Algebra and Elementary Algebra Skills
Part III: Digging In to Intermediate Algebra and Coordinate Geometry
Part IV: Visualizing Plane Geometry and Trigonometry
Part V: Tracking Your Progress with Practice Tests
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Getting into the Act: An Overview of ACT Math Basics
Chapter 1
Getting an Overview of ACT Math
Taking Four Key Steps to ACT Success
Sharpening your basic math skills
Getting comfortable with your calculator
Solidifying your ACT-specific math skills
Taking practice tests under timed conditions
What Should I Study? Knowing What’s on the ACT
Taking care of the basics in pre-algebra
Basic arithmetic
Number sequences
Factors and multiples
Percents, ratios, and proportions
Powers (exponents) and square roots (radicals)
Data and graphs
Basic statistics and probability
Moving on to elementary algebra
Evaluating, simplifying, and factoring expressions
Solving equations with one or more variables
Focusing on intermediate algebra
Taking a look at inequalities
Working with systems of equations
Understanding direct and inverse proportionality
Examining quadratic equations
Finding information about functions
Working with coordinate geometry
Graphing linear functions
Recognizing quadratic functions
Transforming functions
Grappling with higher-order polynomial functions and circles
Reviewing plane geometry
Lines and angles
Triangles
Quadrilaterals
Circles
Solid geometry
Dealing with trigonometry and other advanced topics
Trigonometry
Matrices
Logarithms
Imaginary and complex numbers
You’re Off the Hook: Discovering What the ACT Doesn’t Cover
Chapter 2
Two-Timing the Test: Taking Two Passes to Answer Questions
To Guess or Not to Guess
Answering Multiple-Choice Questions
Considering the five answer choices
Plugging and playing
Calculating Your Way to Success: Calculators and the ACT
When should I use a calculator?
What kind of calculators can I use?
What kind of calculators can’t I use?
How do I use my calculator?
Identifying Basic Math Skills You Need to Know
Knowing how the four basic operations operate
Keeping your negatives straight
Evaluating with the order of operations
Making peace with fractions
Getting Comfortable with Formulas
Reviewing the formulas you need to know
Pre-algebra
Elementary algebra
Intermediate algebra
Coordinate geometry
Plane geometry
Trigonometry and other topics
Working with your arsenal of formulas
Solving for a missing value
Using two different formulas to solve one problem
Working with unfamiliar formulas
Sorting Through Word Problems
Jotting down the numbers
Sketching out problem information
Getting Back to Basics: Answering Basic Arithmetic Questions
Reviewing the four basic operations
Following along with number sequences
Checking out inequalities
Evaluating a number’s absolute value
Understanding Factors and Multiples
Finding factors
Generating lists of multiples
Perfecting Your Knowledge of Percents
Knowing basic percent conversions
Taking advantage of a quick trick for calculating some percents
Calculating straightforward percent problems
Untangling complex percent problems
Handling the ups and downs of percent increase and decrease
Using Ratios and Proportions to Compare Quantities
Working with Powers and Square Roots
Harnessing the power of exponents
Be square: Squaring and square roots
Square roots
Real-World Math: Studying Statistics
Presenting data in tables and graphs
Organizing information in tables
Representing data with graphs
Getting a better-than-average grasp of averages
Finding the meaning of the mean
Centering on the median
Discovering what’s so popular about the mode
Looking at Likelihood: Probability
Learning to count
Counting the outcomes of independent events
Counting the outcomes of dependent events
Determining probability
Knowing the Two Big Ideas of Algebra
Every step you take: Keeping equations balanced
Walkin’ a lonely road: Isolating the variable
Discovering Six Choice Words about Algebra
Express Yourself: Working with Algebraic Expressions
Evaluating expressions
Simplifying expressions
Combining like terms
Removing parentheses
Getting FOILed
Simplifying expressions with exponents
Factoring expressions
Finding common factors
Unearthing three useful ways to factor squares and cubes
Solving Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Approaching rational equations rationally
Rooting out ways to solve square root equations
Gaining absolute confidence with absolute value
Exposing variables in the exponent
Taking extra care with extra variables
Lost in Translation: Translating Words into Equations
Practice Problems
Solutions to Practice Problems
Knowing More or Less about Inequalities
Becoming a pro at inequalities
Separate but unequal: Solving inequalities with absolute value
Beating the System: Dealing with Systems of Equations
Solving systems of equations systematically
Finding values with substitution
Combining equations
Working word problems using a system of equations
Keeping Things in Proportion: Direct and Inverse Proportionality
Maintaining a balance with direct proportions
Turning things around with inverse proportions
Working with Quadratic Equations and the Roots of Polynomials
Factoring to solve quadratic equations
Choosing the quadratic formula when all else fails
Making Connections with Functions
Using functions as models
Defining relationships with functional notation and evaluation
Getting to know domain and range
Arriving at the domain event
Feeling at home with the range
Reviewing Some Basics of Coordinate Geometry
Graphing Linear Functions
Lining up some line segment skills
Finding coordinates with the midpoint formula
Going the whole ten yards with the distance formula
Measuring the slope of a line
Applying the slope-intercept form
Working with parallel and perpendicular lines
Giving Your Quads a Workout: Graphing Quadratic Functions
Searching for the qualities of a quadratic
Trick 1: Checking the direction of your parabola
Trick 2: Looking at your parabola’s vertex
Trick 3: Keeping an eye on variable c
Calculating two features of parabolas
Accessing the axis of symmetry
Changing direction at the vertex
Solving and graphing quadratic inequalities
Recognizing Three Transformations
Reversing graphs with reflections
Movin’ on up (or down): Vertical shift
Shifting horizontally
Taking on Advanced Equations
Raising the bar with higher-order polynomials
Going ’round and ’round with circles
Practice Problems for Intermediate Algebra and Coordinate Geometry
Intermediate Algebra and Coordinate Geometry Practice Problems
Solutions to Intermediate Algebra and Coordinate Geometry Practice Problems
Knowing Your Angles
Angles around one point
Angles and parallel lines
Interior angles in a polygon
Working with Triangles
Finding the area of a triangle
Answering questions containing right triangles
Taking advantage of the Pythagorean theorem
Recognizing some common right triangles
Breezing through Your Work with Quadrilaterals
Squares
Rectangles
Parallelograms
Trapezoids
Wheeling and Dealing with Circles
Rounding up the basic circle formulas
Understanding tangent lines
Making sense of arc length
Striking a few chords
Examining Solid Geometry
Focusing on cubes and boxes
Incorporating spheres into your geometric repertoire
Prisms and pyramids
Cylinders and cones
Trigonometry: Watching the Sines and Taking a Few Tangents
Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse
Knowing how to SOH CAH TOA
Feeling radiant with radian measure
Graphing trig functions
Identifying trig identities
Reloading the Matrix
Adding and subtracting matrices
Making sense of matrix multiplication
Multiplying a matrix by a real number
Multiplying two matrices
Determining the meaning of determinants
Logging Some Hours with Logarithms
Imagining the Possibilities with Imaginary Numbers
Practice Problems for Geometry, Trig, and Advanced Math
Geometry, Trig, and Advanced Math Practice Problems
Solutions to Geometry, Trig, and Advanced Math Practice Problems
Mathematics Test Answer Sheet
Answer Key for Practice Test 1
Answer Key for Practice Test 2
Mathematics Test
Answer Key for Practice Test 3
Index

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