Welcome to Math 112 - College Algebra, as taught at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. The text for this course is College Algebra, 5th Edition, by Man M. Sharma.
In today's lecture, we cover parts of topics 3.3 and 3.5 of the text. We look at absolute value symbols, what they mean and how to solve equations with absolute value functions in them. We also look at how to solve inequalities with absolute values in them, after briefly reviewing inequalities in general.