MATH 1032 - Survey Mathematical Thought II

College of Sciences

Lecture
- Credits: 3

Non-technical survey of major branches of mathematics with examples of problems and methods in each. Topics include personal loans, simple and compound interest, finance charge on a loan or credit card, and the monthly payment on a mortgage, distinguishing between different types of annuities and retirement investments, empirical and theoretical probabilities on events occurring, elementary rules of probability, counting techniques, applying probability concepts, descriptive and inferential statistics including graphs, calculating and interpreting descriptive statistics, applying the empirical rule to normal distributions, and correlation and linear regression. Not offered for degree credit for students enrolled in the College of Sciences or College of Engineering.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Not offered for students enrolled in the College of Sciences or College of Engineering or credit for DEVM 107
Grading Basis: Graded
Repeatable: N
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