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2024 - 2025 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Catalog
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MAT 165 - Business Calculus


Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course is designed for students in business, social sciences, or life sciences. Topics include limits; derivatives; applications of the derivative related to business, social science, and the life sciences; integration; and applications of the integral related to business, social science, and the life sciences.  This course satisfies a general education requirement in the Mathematics Area.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in MAT 121  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:

  • Apply the concept of the derivative to business application problems.

  • Apply previously learned algebra skills in simplifying derivatives. 

  • Apply the concept of integration to business application problems.



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