MATH 142 - Business Mathematics II

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MATH 142 is a three credit-hour calculus course for business majors; it has no lab, is usually the last mathematics course taken by those enrolled, and is a prerequisite for certain accounting and business courses. The students are mostly freshmen and sophomores.

TO THE INSTRUCTOR:Because this course is directed towards business majors, it emphasizes the exponential and logarithmic functions. Students have difficulty with both of these functions. The students also have trouble with the chain rule, max-min word problems, integration, and with the rules for differentiating exponentials. Otherwise, the comments on MATH 131 are applicable.

The College of Business has requested that we teach partial derivatives and their use in solving 2-variable max-min problems. Be sure to cover this material.