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Precalc Skills

To succeed in Honors Precalculus, students must have skills in arithmetic without a calculator, factoring expressions, working with functions including writing and graphing equations of lines and special functions and finding function values, working with radicals including simplifying, adding, subtracting, and multiplying radicals, solving quadratic equations through various methods including factoring, using the quadratic formula, completing the square, and graphing, and working with rational expressions including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and solving rational equations.

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Precalc Skills

To succeed in Honors Precalculus, students must have skills in arithmetic without a calculator, factoring expressions, working with functions including writing and graphing equations of lines and special functions and finding function values, working with radicals including simplifying, adding, subtracting, and multiplying radicals, solving quadratic equations through various methods including factoring, using the quadratic formula, completing the square, and graphing, and working with rational expressions including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and solving rational equations.

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To succeed in Honors Precalculus, you must have the following skills:

1. Arithmetic (without a calculator)


a. Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide
b. Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide Fractions
 
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2. Factor
a. GCF
1. 21x2 – 42x
b. Grouping
1. 6x3 – 2x2 – 9x + 3
c. Trinomials (a = 1 and a ≠ 1)
1. x2 + 3x – 18
2. 6x2 – x – 2
d. Difference of Squares
1. 18x4 – 2

3. Work with Functions


a. Write Equations of Lines
1. through (3, 7) and (-1, 4)

2. Through (5, -2) with slope 
b. Graph Lines
1. 3x + 4y = -2

2. y =
x + 5
c. Graph Special Functions
1. y = -2 | x + 3 | - 4
2. y = 3(x – 1)2 + 2

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5
3. f(x) =  
2,
5    2
3,   2
d. Find function values
1. If f(x) = x2 – x + 5, find f(3)
2. If f(x) = -x2 + 3x, find f(2y)
4. Work with Radicals
a. Simplify
1. 6√50
b. Rationalize

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c. Add/Subtract/Multiply
1. 5√32 - 7√18

2. 6√3
3. 7√2 5√6

5. Solve Quadratic Equations


a. By Factoring
1. 2x2 – 7x – 15 = 0
b. Using the Quadratic Formula
1. 3x2 – x + 8 = 0
c. Completing the Square
1. 4x2 + 12x – 18 = 0
d. Graphing
1. -2x2 – 3x + 8 = 0
e. Determining the appropriate method to solve

6. Work with Rational Expressions


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