Sets and Operations with Real Numbers

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Reading Assignment:

Nustad and Wesner: Sections 1-1 and 1-2, pages 2-10 and pages 13-20.

 

Learning Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• understand terminology associated with sets
• determine when a given set is a subset of another set
• perform the operations of union and intersection on sets
• use inequalities to determine relationships between given numbers
• find the absolute value of a number
• perform the basic arithmetic operations on all real numbers
• understand and simplify exponential expressions
• perform the basic arithmetic operations on fractions

 

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