With an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking, Mark Dugopolski gives students the essential strategies to help them develop the comprehension and confidence they need to be successful in this course. Students will find carefully placed learning aids and review tools to help them do the math. KEY TOPICS: Prerequisites; Equations, Inequalities, and Modeling; Functions and Graphs; Polynomial and Rational Functions; Exponential and Logarithmic Functions; Systems of Equations and Inequalities; Matrices and Determinants; The Conic Sections; Sequences, Series, and Probability MARKET: For all readers interested in college algebra.