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:
- the distance formula and the midpoint formula
- equations for circles
- symmetry (How to recognize it in an equation and what it
means about a graph)
- slope, equations for straight lines, parallel and perpendicular
lines, word problems
- 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 |