MAT1024
Quantitative Methods
This course presents a review of various practical time-tested mathematical principles and procedures important to business, economics, accounting, management, and finance. Topics and applications to real-life situations include functions, linear programming, matrices, limits, derivatives, and integrals. Goals are personal improvement, vocational support, and enhanced overall academic success.
UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:
- Solving systems of equations.
- Utilizing linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions.
- Designing linear functions for business operations.
- Graphically analyzing linear programming problems.
- Maximizing and minimizing linear systems.
- Utilizing laws of linear algebra for problem solving.
- Performing mathematical operations on matrices.
- Examining the simplex algorithm in linear programming problems.
- Developing the limit of a function graphically and analytically.
- Interpreting the derivative in various formats.
- Utilizing various derivative formulas.
- Examining maxima and minima with derivatives.
- Determining marginal analysis in business and economics.
- Solving optimization problems.
- Computing anti-derivative, indefinite, and definite integral.
- Employing various techniques of integration.
- Calculating the area under a curve.
- Modeling the definite integral to business problems.
- Expressing analytical thinking, orally and in writing, and applying that knowledge to other disciplines and to real-world situations.