Why are the applications in this textbook so needlessly hard?

sounds like a your brain problem
keep practicing

>>16742636
Will do. Will keep struggling until I get it

also, i swear to jesus that "precalculus" is named such to make retards feel better about themselves since it has the word "calculus" in it

>>16742638
i respect the attitude
math takes effort to pick up. i say this as someone that is pretty far along at this point, and it's almost never easy
that being said, it's like playing a musical instrument. if you keep practicing (and sleeping between learning things) it will be easy one day

>>16742638
>>16742642
This is false. Nobody of any worth or talent has ever had to struggle for mathematical knowledge.
"Hard work" is a cope for the feeble minded automatons. If you can't effortlessly succeed, then you are fighting against nature and doomed to failure.
Disgusting, lowly creatures. Inferior in every way.

>>16742639
It used to be called "Algebra and Trigonometry". I don't know what happened

>>16742674
American education happened. Its beyond me how big players like Mit, caltech, harvard or yale waste 2 semester on "Precalculus" meanwhile Europeans dive right into Real Analysis from the start

>>16742829
As an American that took Calc AB and BC... which still also wound up taking Calc I.
Calc I is literally just Calc AB + BC, I didn't need to change my Calc book, it covered Calc AB, BC, I, II, and III
isn't that what they mean by precalc? It's what I called Precalc at the time, is there a difference I'm unaware of?

>>16742874
Oh shit, I completely forgot, I took Precalc Honors over the summer. It was that forgettable.

>>16742639
The latest trend in US schools is to name their third algebra class "Analysis."