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=== Minimal learning outcomes ===
 
=== Minimal learning outcomes ===
1. Students should be able to solve problems using dimensional analysis.
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1. Solve problems using dimensional analysis.
  
2. Students should be able to identify abuses of percentages in real life applications.
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2. Identify the uses and abuses of percentages in real life applications.
  
3. Students should be able to calculate interest, payments, and earnings on mortgages, lines of credit, annuities, and other interest bearing investments and debts.
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3. Calculate interest, payments, and earnings on mortgages, lines of credit, annuities, and other interest bearing investments and debts.
  
4. Students should be able to analyze statistical studies and judge their validity.
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4. Analyze statistical studies and judge their validity.
  
5. Students should be able to calculate probabilities associated with normally distributed data, and identify data that is likely to be normally distributed.
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5. Calculate probabilities associated with normally distributed data, and identify data that is likely to be normally distributed.
  
6. Students should be able to calculate probabilities of simple events and properly combine probabilities of independent events.
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6. Calculate probabilities of simple events and properly combine probabilities of independent events.
  
 
=== Textbooks ===
 
=== Textbooks ===

Revision as of 08:44, 29 May 2014

Catalog Information

Title

Quantitative Reasoning.

(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

(3:3:0)

Offered

F, W, Sp, Su

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

Additional topics

Courses for which this course is prerequisite