In this chapter, we review all the functions necessary to study calculus. We define polynomial, rational, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.

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Toward the end of the twentieth century, the values of stocks of internet and technology companies rose dramatically. As a result, the Standard and Poor...

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The basic idea of the optimization problems that follow is the same. We have a particular quantity that we are interested in maximizing or minimizing. H...

Are the following functions one-to-one over their domain of existence? Does the function have an inverse? If so, find the inverse ... of the function. J...

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The first two limit laws were stated in Two Important Limits and we repeat them here. These basic results, together with the other limit laws, allow us ...