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− | == Catalog Information ==
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− | === Title ===
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− | Quantitative Reasoning.
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− | === (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours) ===
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− | (3:3:0)
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− | === Offered ===
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− | F, W, Sp, Su
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− | === Description ===
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− | Practicing and applying quantitative reasoning: personal finance, consumer statistics, etc.
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− | === Note ===
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− | For students who do not need developmental algebra for subsequent courses.
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− | === Prerequisites ===
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− | There are no prerequisites for this course.
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− | === Minimal learning outcomes ===
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− | 1. Students should be able to solve problems using dimensional analysis.
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− | 2. Students should be able to identify abuses of percentages in real life applications.
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− | 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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− | 4. Students should be able to analyze statistical studies and judge their validity.
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− | 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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− | 6. Students should be able to calculate probabilities of simple events and properly combine probabilities of independent events.
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− | === Textbooks ===
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− | Possible textbooks for this course include (but are not limited to):
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− | * Bennett and Brigs: Using and Understanding Mathematics
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− | === Additional topics ===
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− | === Courses for which this course is prerequisite ===
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− | [[Category:Courses|102]]
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