Content Changes UPDATED! Examples and exercises throughout the book to include the most current data available UPDATED! Calculator screens to conform to the enhanced capabilities of modern graphers. EXPANDED! Student and teacher notes. ADDED! Separate chapter titled Statistics and Probability. The Common Core Edition is built upon the prior editions of this textbook. Chapter P: the use of the point-slope form of a line has been integrated into the solution of more examples. Chapter 1: References to calculator regression models were reworded to avoid giving the wrong signals about how statisticians actually operate. The discussion of linear correlation was revised in Chapter 2 to complement this edition’s more extensive treatment of Statistics. The section on financial mathematics in Chapter 3: Financial mathematics section now includes simple interest and a predator prey application. Chapter 6: Several significant textual changes have been made in order to tie the topics of this chapter (vectors, parametric equations, and polar graphing) more directly to the topics in the preceding chapters, particularly the unifying concepts of functions and their graphs in the Cartesian plane. Chapter 7: The material on partial fractions has been incorporated into Section 7.3 to streamline Chapter 7. Chapter 8: The treatment of conic sections has been changed to emphasize that they are extensions of previously studied topics, even if their graphs do not pass the vertical line test. Explorations have been added to allow students to make the connections with earlier topics; for example, rotation of axes is introduced by prompting students to treat one of their twelve basic functions (the reciprocal function) as a hyperbola and find its vertices and foci. NEW! Chapter 10: Expands the discussion of Statistics and probability. Section 10.1 opens the chapter with a discussion of basic probability concepts, including sample spaces, determining probabilities of compound events, Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, and conditional probability. MyMathLab® not included. Students, if MyMathLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyMathLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. MyMathLab helps individual students succeed. MyMathLab has a consistently positive impact on student retention, subsequent success, and overall achievement. MyMathLab can be successfully implemented in any environment—lab-based, traditional, fully online, or hybrid. MyMathLab has a comprehensive gradebook that automatically tracks your students’ results on tests, quizzes, homework, and in the study plan. You can use the gradebook to quickly intervene if your students have trouble, or to provide positive feedback on a job well done.