Presents a self-teaching course in precalculus, breaking topics down into understandable units, covering the slope and equation of a line, different types of functions, exponents and logarithms, matrices, and other subjects, and including examples, solutions, graphs, and practice questions.

Includes index.

The slope and equation of a line -- Introduction to functions -- Functions and their graphs -- Combinations of functions and inverse functions -- Translations and special functions -- Quadratic functions -- Polynomial functions -- Rational functions -- Exponents and logarithms -- Systems of equations and inequalities -- Matrices -- Conic sections -- Trigonometry -- Sequences and series.