Jan 15, 2025  
2024 - 2025 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Catalog
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MAT 140 - Finite Math


Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course is designed for students studying business and some of the social and life sciences. Topics covered in this course include sets, functions, finance, matrices, systems of linear equations, linear programming, exponential and logarithmic functions, and sequences and series.  This course satisfies a general education requirement in the Mathematics Area.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in MAT 067  or minimum math placement score based on college assessment within the last two years. Immediate prerequisite course must have been completed within the last two years.
SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Solve linear programming problems involving various applications.
  • Solve financial problems involving simple and compound interest.
  • Calculate mortgages, investments, and other types of loans.
  • Solve linear equations and matrices.



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