Math 102: Quantitative Reasoning
Contents
Catalog Information
Title
Quantitative Reasoning
(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
(3:3:0)
Offered
F, W
Description
Practicing and applying quantitative reasoning: personal finance, consumer statistics, etc.
Note
For students who do not need developmental algebra for subsequent courses.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Minimal learning outcomes
1. Solve problems using dimensional analysis.
2. Identify the uses and abuses of percentages in real life applications.
3. Calculate interest, payments, and earnings on mortgages, lines of credit, annuities, and other interest bearing investments and debts.
4. Analyze statistical studies and judge their validity.
5. Calculate probabilities associated with normally distributed data, and identify data that is likely to be normally distributed.
6. Calculate probabilities of simple events and properly combine probabilities of independent events.
Textbooks
Possible textbooks for this course include (but are not limited to):
- Bennett and Brigs: Using and Understanding Mathematics
