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Chapter Objectives

The material in this chapter is reviewed in the following list of objectives. After completing this chapter, review this list again, and then complete the self-test.

1.1 1.1 Be familiar with the counting numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers.

1.2 State and use the trichotomy property.

1.3 Know the definition of absolute value; simplify absolute value expressions.

1.4 Find distance in one dimension.

1.5 Graph numbers on a number line.

1.6 Be able to convert from linear graphs, interval notation, and inequality notation.

1.2 1.7 Be familiar with the terminology of polynomials, including the definition ...

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