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Reference Topics 16-3

May 21, 2024July 22, 2015 by elaine

This site gives a Gauss-Jordan Elimination Program:
http://www.matric.reshish.com/gauss-jordanElimination.php

Reference Topics 16-2

July 22, 2015 by elaine

This site is reviews translating word problems into systems of equations.
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/systprob.htm

You can use the calculator at this site to solve the system of equations that you obtain from the word problems in this section.
http://www.analyzemath.com/Calculators/Calculator_syst_eq.html … See the whole entry

Reference Topics 16-1

June 4, 2017July 22, 2015 by elaine

This site gives a nice review of solving simple systems of equations.
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/systlin1.htm

This site gives a review of solving simple systems of equations by adding with links to solving simple systems using other methods. This is a great site … See the whole entry

Reference Topics 15-5

July 22, 2015 by elaine

This site provides an elementary discussion of functions.
http://www.algebralab.org/lessons/lesson.aspx?file=Algebra_FunctionsRelationsIntro.xml… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 15-4

May 21, 2024July 22, 2015 by elaine

A nice overview of the conic sections can be found at this site:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/conic-sections.html

This is a great interactive site for graphing conic sections.

In order to use this graphing tool, you need to write the equation in the form… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 15-3

November 10, 2015July 22, 2015 by elaine

Here is a good site for graphing equations of the form “y =”.
http://www.calculator.com/graphing/

This is a general site for graphing lines, parabolas, and exponentials.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator

… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 15-2

May 20, 2024July 22, 2015 by elaine

Here is a good site for graphing half-planes.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ewlhj8j9df

This is an interactive site which will graph half-planes.
Write the given inequality in the form

Ax + By < C
or
Ax + By > C

with the inputs on … See the whole entry

Reference Topics 15-1

June 4, 2017July 22, 2015 by elaine

Here is a good site for graphing lines.
http://www.webmath.com/gline.html

You can use this site to graph several lines at the same time.
https://www.symbolab.com/solver/line-equation-calculator… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 14-5

April 17, 2018July 21, 2015 by elaine

This site is a glossary of statistical terms:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm

This site discusses type I and type II error.
http://www.intuitor.com/statistics/T1T2Errors.html

Group project G46 deals with Buffon’s Needle problem. This site offers a simulation of this problem:
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 14-4

May 21, 2024July 21, 2015 by elaine

This site is a glossary of statistical terms:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm

Vassar provides an online linear correlation calculator.
https://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/pearson/

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