When multiplying radicals there are certain “rules”, concepts, or rather just facts to keep in mind and to apply. These include FOILing, simplifying, and recognizing you do not need to have common indexes or radicands to be able to complete an expression. FOILing, or just using distribution, means multiplying a coefficient through terms within brackets […]
Month: February 2018
Week 3- Absolute Value
This week in pre-calculus 11 we covered the concept of absolute values. The absolute value can be defined as “the principle square root of the square of a number or rather . In simpler terms, the absolute value represents how many units away from zero the given number is. The symbol used to represent absolute […]
Week 2- Geometric Series (1.4)
Similarly to the Arithmetic series, we can use a formula to determine variables such as as well as and . This Formula can be used as demonstrated below to solve for Where and . 1. 2. In the first part of this two step equation we determine “a” […]
Week 1- Arithmetic sequence
Sequence: 12, 16, 20, 24, 28… To determine To determine the sequences general equation To determine