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Introduction.
About This Book.
What Not to Read.
Foolish Assumptions.
How This Book Is Organized.
Where to Go from Here.
Part I: Starting Off with the Basics.
Chapter 1: Assembling Your Tools.
Chapter 2: Assigning Signs: Positive and Negative Numbers.
Chapter 3: Figuring Out Fractions and Dealing with Decimals.
Chapter 4: Exploring Exponents and Raising Radicals.
Chapter 5: Doing Operations in Order and Checking Your Answers.
Chapter 6: Prepping for Operations.
Part II: Figuring Out Factoring.
Chapter 7: Working with Numbers in Their Prime.
Chapter 8: Sharing the Fun: Distributing.
Chapter 9: Factoring in the First Degree.
Chapter 10: Getting the Second Degree.
Chapter 11: Factoring Special Cases.
Part III: Working Equations.
Chapter 12: Lining Up for Linear Equations.
Chapter 13: Solving Linear Equations.
Chapter 14: Taking a Crack at Quadratic Equations.
Chapter 15: Distinguishing Equations with Distinctive Powers.
Chapter 16: Fixing Inequalities.
Part IV: Applying Algebra.
Chapter 17: Making Formulas Behave.
Chapter 18: Sorting Out Story Problems.
Chapter 19: Going Visual: Graphing.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: The Ten Most Common Errors.
Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Factor a Polynomial.
Chapter 22: Ten Divisibility Rules.
Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Dealing with Story Problems.
Glossary.
Index.
Book Registration Information.
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