Overview of: Gateway exam
The Math 1241 gateway exam is designed to verify that you have master based algebra skills and so are poised to succeed with Math 1241. The exam is at a slightly higher level than the placement exam that was taken to qualify to take calculus, except without trigonometry. It emphasizes functions, variables, parameters, and inequalities.
The main components of the gateway exam are:
- Composition of functions
- Exponentiation
- Logarithms
- Linear equations
- Quadratic equations and other simple polynomial equations
- Inequalities
Calculator policy: a scientific calculator is allowed, but no graphing calculator.
No notes or textbook allowed.
Points and due date summary
Total points: 10
Due: Oct. 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m.
Background pages
- Function composition
- Function machine composition
- Function composition examples
- Basic rules for exponentiation
- Basic idea and rules for logarithms
- The exponential function
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