Title: An awfully composed book!
Product review: The college I went to required this book but the instructor hated it! To illustrate, on the first day of class she brought 4 precal books from years past and held this book up to them. The first thing we noticed is that this book is 1/2 the size of the older precal books. Looking through it you find that a lot of critical/remedial information has been left out! As a consequence she had to supplement from those books of yester-year or (as she put it) a lot of people would have probabaly made a D or flat out failed because the way this book was structured!I wholeheartedly agree with her!In short, this book is way, WAY too assuming in the sense that you have a very strong mathematical (algebraic) background and practically throws you off into deep water leaving you to tread it for yourself. To the authors, Mr. Faires and Mr. Defranza...you two might be great math teachers, but your textbook writing skills need some serious work!
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