Math 131

By: Kala Pineda

Unit 2: Equations
-an absolute value equation: |x-3|<-1 has no solution absolute values
of any real number will never be negative

Step 1: Product Rule of Log

Step 2: Definition of Log Step 3: Zero Property Rule

Step 4: Factor x2+5x-36=0

Step 5: Check x=-9 is invalid because the domain of log states that the domain of a log function is the set of positive numbers

Step 1: Product Rule of Log Step 2: 1-1 Prop of Log Step 3: Combine like terms Step 4: Use the Zero Prop Rule Step 5: Use the quadratic formula to solve x2+6x+3=0 Step 6: Check

-align variables
-use the elimination to find variables -use substitution to find other variables -check by substituting variables (x,y,z) into original equation

-isolate the absolute value on one side of the equation - set up 2 equations (switching the <,> signs when using the negative absolute value) Graph and find domain

Unit 1: Expressions
Test Problems/Corrections

Mistake:
-change radical sign into a fraction form - simplify everything including radicals and logs

Mistakes: -double check numbers and

exponents

8a) 52=25 log52=25 8b) b=3log7x

- Change radical into fractions and multiply

April 29, 2014

Quiz and Classwork Corrections

- set u=x3 and u2=x6 - set the quadratic equation - use the zero property - solve for u - change u to x3 - cube both variables - check

Mistakes: - show all the work (how to get the radicand and the denominator)

- understand what each symbol means or should look like on the graph

- use the product property of log - use the definition of log - use the zero prop - solve for x after factoring - check