Information about Quiz 1

• Reminder: There is a quiz on Wednesday, September 16. If you do not drop this quiz, it will count for 6% of your grade for the course. The quiz will take 30 minutes and covers sections P.8, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3. The important topics covered in these sections are:
  1. the distance formula and the midpoint formula

  2. equations for circles

  3. symmetry (How to recognize it in an equation and what it means about a graph)

  4. slope, equations for straight lines, parallel and perpendicular lines, word problems

  5. find domains and (if you have the graph) ranges for functions, evaluating functions

• The quiz has six questions. As usual, I want exact answers and you must show your supporting work.

• Solutions to Quiz 1 are available in the Math Department Library, Room 121 of JWB. These are full solutions, with intermediate steps, not just the answers. You may check them out for 2 hours if you wish.

• Grading Scale for Quiz 1: Scores on the first quiz correspond (approximately) to letter grades as follows:

  90 - 100%	A	23
  85 - 89%	A-	7
  80 - 84%	B+	9
  75 - 79%	B	16
  70 - 74%	B-	9
  65 - 69%	C+	9
  60 - 64%	C	6
  55 - 59%	C-	10
  50 - 54%	D+	10
  45 - 49%	D	5
  40 - 44%	D-	4
  Less than 40%	E	10