Radicals and Rational Exponents · Exercise 5

Investigation: There are 32 student-learning outcomes (SLO’s) in a typical College Algebra course. These are topics a student needs to master to show proficiency in College Algebra. Let’s begin by looking at just a few of these skills. Let’s assign the variables, A, B, C, and D to the following topics. We will name the set containing each of these 4 topics, Q.

Using roster notation Q = {A, B, C, D}.

The subsets you created in #1 are referred to as knowledge spaces in the field of learning science. In this context mastery of one concept may depend on your mastery of another.
List one skill in mathematics that would help to master each of the following SLO’s:

• A = Graph the basic functions listed in the library of functions.
• B = Find the domain of a function defined by an equation.
• C = Create a new function through composition of functions.
• D = Find linear functions that model data sets.

Its source prints no answer for this problem, so there's nothing to check against.

OpenStax, Algebra and Trigonometry 2e · §1.3 Radicals and Rational Exponents · Exercise 5