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The Blitzer Algebra Series combines mathematical accuracy with an engaging, friendly, and often fun presentation for maximum student appeal. Blitzer’s personality shows in his writing, as he draws students into the material through relevant and thought-provoking applications. Every Blitzer page is interesting and relevant, ensuring that students will actually use their textbook to achieve success!

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Outstanding applications put learning into context for students. Blitzer creates riveting applications that show students the relevance of math. Blitzer’s applications captivate students’ imaginations with his passion for integrating math into the worlds of contemporary society, culture, and art.
Newly-revised application-based Chapter and Section Opening Scenarios motivate each section topic and enliven the section material with a real-world application. Each scenario is revisited in an example, discussion, or exercise.
Extensive exercise sets offers several types of exercises. This variety makes it easy to create well-rounded homework assignments:

Practice Exercises gives students the opportunity to practice the concepts they have just learned.
Practice Plus Problems are more challenging exercises that require students to combine several skills or concepts.
Application Exercises put concepts into a real-world scenario, giving students an opportunity see how math is applicable to life.
Writing in Mathematics exercises ask students to explain terms and concepts in their own words, helping them to develop a mathematical vocabulary.
Technology Exercises are optional exercises requiring the use of a graphing utility; many connect back to the Using Technology boxes in the section.
Critical Thinking Exercises stretch student thinking by taking concepts one step further while asking students to draw conclusions and justify answers. The new Make Sense and True/False exercises fall under this category.
Review Exercises review previously covered topics to improve students’ understanding of the topics and to maintain their mastery of the material.
NEW! Preview Exercises help students prepare for the following section by previewing the concepts that they will soon encounter.

Mid-Chapter Check Points allow students to stop and assess the skills and concepts they’ve learned separately over several sections.
Check Point exercises after every example make the text more interactive by offering students the opportunity to test their understanding of the example by working a similar exercise. Answers to all of the Check Points are in the answer section.
Voice Balloons call out key problem-solving tips to clarify processes and make explanations easy to follow.
The Brief Guide to Getting the Most from This Book is a useful summary inside the front cover that provides a framework for students to follow to effectively use the text as a learning resource.
The Chapter Test Prep Video, which comes with every new copy of the text, provides the solution to every textbook Chapter Test exercise on video. An instructor walks students through each exercise step-by-step, allowing students to pause and rewind as needed.
Study Tips Boxes offer suggestions for problem solving, point out common student errors, and provide useful tips and suggestions to help students hone this all-important set of skills.
Chapter Summaries are organized by section and highlight important concepts and topics with side-by-side examples to make it easy for students to study and check for mastery of important chapter content.

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New and Updated Features:

New Applications and Real World Data have been incorporated in this revision, with more than 214 worked-out examples and application exercises based on new data sets from a variety of books, magazines, newspapers, almanacs, and Web sites.
Revised opening scenarios begin each chapter and section with a real-world application. These scenarios are revisited throughout the chapter in examples, exercises, and discussions. The often humorous tone helps fearful and reluctant students overcome their negative perceptions about math.
922 new examples and exercises include 23 detailed, worked-out examples involving new data, 191 new application exercises, 240 Make Sense discussion exercises, 177 preview exercises, and 291 new exercises that appear in various other categories.
- “Make Sense?” Exercises contain four critical thinking exercises that foster participation in the learning process. These questions ask students to determine whether statements are sensible, and to explain why or why not, allowing instructors to quickly gauge students’ understanding of concepts.
- True/False problems now ask students to determine whether statements are true or false. If a statement is false, students are asked to make the necessary changes to produce a true statement.
- Preview Exercises at the end of each section review concepts that students will need to be successful in the coming section.
- Model comparison exercises ask students whether values obtained from mathematical models under- or overestimate the data obtained from graphs, and if so, by how much.

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Exercise coverage has been substantially increased over the previous edition.
English and Spanish captioning is now available on all videos.
An Interactive Spanish glossary has been included.
The Worksheets for Classroom or Lab Practice have been integrated into MyMathLab.

Content Updates:

Section 1.1 Introduction to Algebra: Variables and Mathematical Models is a new section that sets the stage for the entire text. Introducing the use of variables to represent numbers allows students to understand how algebra is used to model data. Connections between data and graphing are made through the use of bar and line graphs. This early introduction to algebraic expressions, equations, and models changes the chapter’s focus from real numbers to a broader perspective as reflected in the new title for Chapter 1 Variables, Real Numbers, and Mathematical Models. The rectangular coordinate system is no longer introduced in Chapter 1—the models that appear throughout the early chapters are all displayed using bar and line graphs. This leads to a fluid transition into rectangular coordinates, introduced in Chapter 4 when students begin graphing linear equations.
Section 1.2 Fractions in Algebra still reviews fractions and their operations, but now discusses problems involving fractions that appear in algebraic expressions, equations, and mathematical models.
Section 2.6 Solving Linear Inequalities introduces interval notation, using both interval and set-builder notation to express solution sets of inequalities.
Section 4.1 Graphing Linear Equations in Two Variables introduces the rectangular coordinate system and uses point plotting to graph linear equations. The section focuses exclusively on linear equations, postponing discussions on graphing of nonlinear equations until Chapter 6 Exponents and Polynomials.
Section 4.3 Slope contains a new discussion of slope and perpendicular lines.
Section 5.2 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by the Substitution Method presents supply and demand models in forms students will encounter if they take an economics course.
Section 6.1 Adding and Subtracting Polynomials includes a brief discussion on graphing equations defined by polynomials of degree 2, using point plotting to graph y = x² – 4.
Section 6.6 Dividing Polynomials by Binomials illustrates the steps involved in long division of whole numbers before considering the similar process for dividing a polynomial by a binomial.
A new appendix on Mean, Median, and Mode has been added.

Table of Contents

A Brief Guide to Getting the Most from This Book

Preface

To The Student

About the Author

1. Variables, Real Numbers, and Mathematical Models

1.1 Introduction to Algebra: Variables and Mathematical Models

1.2 Fractions in Algebra

1.3 The Real Numbers

1.4 Basic Rules of Algebra

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 1.1—Section 1.4

1.5 Addition of Real Numbers

1.6 Subtraction of Real Numbers

1.7 Multiplication and Division of Real Numbers

1.8 Exponents and Order of Operations

Chapter 1 Group Project

Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter 1 Review Exercises

Chapter 1 Chapter Test

2. Linear Equations and Inequalities in One Variable

2.1 The Addition Property of Equality

2.2 The Multiplication Property of Equality

2.3 Solving Linear Equations

2.4 Formulas and Percents

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 2.1—Section 2.4

2.5 An Introduction to Problem Solving

2.6 Solving Linear Inequalities

Chapter 2 Group Project

Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter 2 Review Exercises

Chapter 2 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—2)

3. Problem Solving

3.1 Further Problem Solving

3.2 Ratio and Proportion

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 3.1—Section 3.2

3.3 Problem Solving in Geometry

Chapter 3 Group Project

Chapter 3 Summary

Chapter 3 Review Exercises

Chapter 3 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—3)

4. Linear Equations and Inequalities in Two Variables

4.1 Graphing Linear Equations in Two Variables

4.2 Graphing Linear Equations Using Intercepts

4.3 Slope

4.4 The Slope-Intercept Form of the Equation of a Line

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 4.1—Section 4.4

4.5 The Point-Slope Form of the Equation of a Line

4.6 Linear Inequalities in Two Variables

Chapter 4 Group Project

Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter 4 Review Exercises

Chapter 4 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—4)

5. Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities

5.1 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Graphing

5.2 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by the Substitution Method

5.3 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by the Addition Method

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 5.1—Section 5.3

5.4 Problem Solving Using Systems of Equations

5.5 Systems of Linear Inequalities

Chapter 5 Group Project

Chapter 5 Summary

Chapter 5 Review Exercises

Chapter 5 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—5)

6. Exponents and Polynomials

6.1 Adding and Subtracting Polynomials

6.2 Multiplying Polynomials

6.3 Special Products

6.4 Polynomials in Several Variables

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 6.1—Section 6.4

6.5 Dividing Polynomials

6.6 Dividing Polynomials by Binomials

6.7 Negative Exponents and Scientific Notation

Chapter 6 Group Project

Chapter 6 Summary

Chapter 6 Review Exercises

Chapter 6 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—6)

7. Factoring Polynomials

7.1 The Greatest Common Factor and Factoring By Grouping

7.2 Factoring Trinomials Whose Leading Coefficient Is 1

7.3 Factoring Trinomials Whose Leading Coefficient Is Not 1

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 7.1—Section 7.3

7.4 Factoring Special Forms

7.5 A General Factoring Strategy

7.6 Solving Quadratic Equations By Factoring

Chapter 7 Group Project

Chapter 7 Summary

Chapter 7 Review Exercises

Chapter 7 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—7)

8. Rational Expressions

8.1 Rational Expressions and Their Simplification

8.2 Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions

8.3 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions with the Same Denominator

8.4 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions with Different Denominators

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 8.1—Section 8.4

8.5 Complex Rational Expressions

8.6 Solving Rational Equations

8.7 Applications Using Rational Equations and Variation

Chapter 8 Group Project

Chapter 8 Summary

Chapter 8 Review Exercises

Chapter 8 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—8)

9. Roots and Radicals

9.1 Finding Roots

9.2 Multiplying and Dividing Radicals

9.3 Operations with Radicals

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 9.1—Section 9.3

9.4 Rationalizing the Denominator

9.5 Radical Equations

9.6 Rational Exponents

Chapter 9 Group Project

Chapter 9 Summary

Chapter 9 Review Exercises

Chapter 9 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—9)

10. Quadratic Equations and Introduction to Functions

10.1 Solving Quadratic Equations by the Square Root Property

10.2 Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square

10.3 The Quadratic Formula

Mid-Chapter Check Point Section 10.1—Section 10.3

10.4 Imaginary Numbers as Solutions of Quadratic Equations

10.5 Graphs of Quadratic Equations

10.6 Introduction to Functions

Chapter 10 Group Project

Chapter 10 Summary

Chapter 10 Review Exercises

Chapter 10 Test

Cumulative Review Exercises (Chapters 1—10)

Appendix: Mean, Median, and Mode

Answers to Selected Exercises

Graphing Answer Section <AIE only>

Applications Index

Subject Index

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Bob Blitzer is a native of Manhattan and received a Bachelor of Arts degree with dual majors in mathematics and psychology (minor: English literature) from the City College of New York. His unusual combination of academic interests led him toward a Master of Arts in mathematics from the University of Miami and a doctorate in behavioral sciences from Nova University. Bob’s love for teaching mathematics was nourished for nearly 30 years at Miami Dade College, where he received numerous teaching awards, including Innovator of the Year from the League for Innovations in the Community College and an endowed chair based on excellence in the classroom. In addition to Intermediate Algebra for College Students, Bob has written textbooks covering introductory algebra, college algebra, algebra and trigonometry, precalculus, and liberal arts mathematics, all published by Prentice Hall. When not secluded in his Northern California writer’s cabin, Bob can be found hiking the beaches and trails of Point Reyes National Seashore, and tending to the chores required by his beloved entourage of horses, chickens, and irritable roosters.

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