{"product_id":"aleks-math-placement-test-prep-excellent-a-freedom-9798181111653","title":"ALEKS Math Placement Test Prep: 1,000+ Problems Solved Step-by-Step From Basic Algebra to Precalculus - How to Skip Remedial Maths and Place into Coll","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou are not bad at maths. You have gaps. This book fills them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a dusty reference manual. It is a memoir-textbook hybrid that walks you from the foundations of arithmetic through the precalculus concepts required to skip remedial courses. Written in clear, conversational UK English, each chapter delivers roughly 2,000 words of instruction followed by solved problems with written rationales that explain every move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiagnose your hidden gaps first.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter One opens with a 20-question diagnostic quiz that maps exactly where your weaknesses live. The scoring guide directs you to the chapters you actually need - no wasted time on topics you already know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuild number sense you were never taught.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Two covers negative numbers as debt and temperature, fractions as unfinished division, decimals as fractions in disguise, and ratios that make sense. The debt model for subtracting negatives alone will change how you see signed numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLearn algebra's secret grammar.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Three explains variables, expressions versus equations, like terms, the distributive law, solving linear equations, inequalities, and the special cases of no solution or infinite solutions - all treated as a language with rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaster word problems without weeping.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Four introduces the Freedom Translation Grid - a dictionary that turns English phrases into algebra. You will work through number problems, age problems, rate problems (distance, work, speed), mixture problems, and a step-by-step translation process that eliminates guessing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConquer exponents, roots, and scientific notation.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Five teaches the five laws of exponents, zero and negative exponents, square roots and higher roots, simplifying radicals, and scientific notation - all derived from the simple truth that exponents are repeated multiplication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAchieve quadratic and polynomial mastery.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Six covers adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials, factoring (GCF, difference of squares, perfect square trinomials, quadratics with a=1 and a1), solving quadratics by four methods, the discriminant, and graphing parabolas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstand functions and graphs that talk.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Seven defines functions as machines, covers function notation, domain and range, evaluating functions, composite functions, linear functions, quadratic functions, exponential functions, and reading graphs left to right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWork with exponentials and logarithms without fear.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Nine explains exponential growth and decay, the definition of a logarithm as the same statement written backwards, the three log laws (product, quotient, power), evaluating logarithms without a calculator, solving exponential equations, and solving logarithmic equations - all for placement-test level, not calculus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTake the final simulated test.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter Ten provides a 40-question cumulative exam covering arithmetic, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, algebra, exponents, radicals, polynomials, quadratics, functions, exponentials, logs, and word problems - with a complete answer key and step-by-step rationales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1,000+ problems solved step-by-step\u003c\/b\u003e - every rationale explains why we do each move, not just what the answer is. 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