This course is designed to provide a secure foundation in the fundamentals of Business Mathematics. Topics clude: interest calculations, depreciation, statistical data and graphs, algebra of polynomials, roots, radicals and exponents, relations and functions, exponential functions and their graphs. Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the Mathematics Placement Test.

Topics include lines and linear functions; a geometric approach to linear programming; the simplex method; sensitivity analysis; integer-valued optimization problems; sets and counting; elementary proba-bility; probability distributions and statistics. Utilization of graphing technology for the visualization of data; solving multivariable problems using Excel. Business applications emphasized. Prerequisite skill in arithmetic and Algebra II is required. Offered fall and spring semesters.