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MAN109 MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS I
2018-2019/AUTUMN

Course Pages:

Office Hours:
See the instructor's door for scheduled office hours. You may also ask for an appointment for a meeting out of office hours.
Please do not disturb the instructor during lunch and refreshment breaks, and during academic research and meetings time.

Main References:

  • Textbook: Barnett, R. A., Ziegler M. R. & Byleen K. E., (2010) “College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences and Social Sciences”, 12th ed., Prentice Hall.
  • Sidebook: Thomas, G. B.,, Weir M. D. & Hass J. R.Thomas. “Thomas’ Calculus”, Pearson (12th edition is distributed on archive.org for free.).

You can also benefit from any other textbook, article, note or lecture note, in English or Turkish, which covers the course material.

Objectives:
This is the first course of the two-step ”Mathematics for Business” series, primarily designed for constructing a mathematics background for business students, covering related topics to deriving necessary information from mathematical functions, using statistical data and solving mathematical business models.

Prerequisites:
None.

Grading Policy:

  • Your final grade will be a result of a midterm exam, (30%), homeworks (20%) and a final exam (50%).
  • Please bring your calculators and necessary stationary equipment with you for all of the exams. Sharing calculators or any stationary equipment will not be allowed.
  • Attendance will not be used for grading purposes, except for the related university regulations.

Class Policy:

  • Students are obliged to maintain the learning environment.
  • When asked, students are expected to participate in in-class activities.
  • Lack of knowledge of the rules is not a reasonable explanation for a violation. Any violation of the rules or causing a disturbance in the classroom will be observed and necessary actions will be taken.

Tentative Course Outline:

▹ Week -1-

Meeting and introduction to the course. Linear equations, functions and graphs (Chapter 1,2).

▸ Week -2-

Limits (Chapter 10, Section 10.1-10.3).

▸ Week -3-

Derivation and differentiation (Chapter 10, Sections 10.4, 10.5, 10.6).

▸ Week -4-

Using derivatives and differentials in practice (Chapter 10, Section 10.7).

▸ Week -5-

Derivative: More complex derivations (Chapter 11, Sections 11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7).

▸ Week -6-

Derivative: The Chain Rule (Chapter 11, Section 11.4).

▸ Week -7-

Derivation: Partial Derivative (Chapter 15; Section 15.2).

▸ Week -8-

MIDTERM WEEK - Course will not take place.

▸ Week -9-

Graphing: Drawing and using graphs of functions by using derivatives (Chapter 12, Sections 12.1, 12.2, 12.4).

▸ Week -10-

Graphing: Using graphing theory for optimization (Chapter 12, Sections 12.5, 12.6).

▸ Week -11-

Integration: Introduction (Chapter 13, Sections 13.1, 13.2, 13.3; Chapter 14, Sections 14.3, 14.4).

▸ Week -12-

Integration: Advanced integration topics (Chapter 13, Sections 13.4, Chapter 14, Sections 14.1, 14.2).

▸ Week -13-

Integration: Business implications.

▸ Week -14-

Review.

Students with the following ID numbers have failed to meet attandence requirements of the course and cannot take the final exam. If you have any valid excuses, please provide to instructor before final exam. Aşağıda öğrenci numaraları listelenen öğrenciler dersin devam koşulunu sağlayamamış ve final sınavına girme hakkı kazanamamışlardır. Eğer geçerli mazeretiniz varsa, lütfen final sınavından önce ders sorumlusuna bildirin. 21612278, 21612963, 21712302, 21712392, 21712412, 21712632, 21712976, 21713092, 21789776, 21808226, 21812898, 21812975, 21888855, 21889742, 21942504

You can download and vote the post-midterm hand-notes of your friends until 31.01.2020 via this link.

Click here for 2019-2020 Fall term midterm results!

Any announcements on course assignments will be posted here.

Homework Assignments

IMPORTANT GUIDELINES
  • You should upload your solutions as a single pdf file.
  • Filenames should only be your student number, and nothing else (e.g., 217123456.pdf).
  • At the top of each page, you should mention which questions are answered on the page (e.g., Section 1.2, Questions 64-70, 75, 77.). The question numbers should represent the questions in College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences and Social Sciences, 12th edition.
  • Check this list for week-by-week homework results.
Homework - 1 --- Weeks 1-2

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 30.10.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 1
Section 1 Excercises
  • Questions 47-68
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 61-68, 77, 78
Chapter 2
Section 3 Excercises
  • Questions 61-68
Section 4 Excercises
  • Questions 57-61
Chapter 10
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 39-52, 69-72

Homework - 2 --- Week 3

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 06.11.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 10
Section 4 Excercises
  • Questions 1-4, 39-41, 63-67
Section 5 Excercises
  • Questions 37-42, 69-74, 81-84
Section 6 Excercises
  • Questions 37-40
Section 7 Excercises
  • Questions 25-35

Homework - 4 --- Week 5

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 13.11.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 11
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 31-42, 51-54
Section 3 Excercises
  • Questions 71-84
Section 5 Excercises
  • Questions 15-22, 27-30, 43-46
Section 6 Excercises
  • Questions 25-28
Section 7 Excercises
  • Questions 31-36, 63-68

Homework - 5 --- Weeks 6-7

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 22.11.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 11
Section 4 Excercises
  • Questions 35-48, 71-76, 91-94
Chapter 15
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 1-8, 23-34, 83-88

Homework - 6 --- Week 9

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 13.12.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 12
Section 1 Excercises
  • Questions 19, 20, 21, 22, 88, 89, 92
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 89, 90, 92
Section 4 Excercises
  • Questions 2, 34, 54, 55, 56

Homework - 7 --- Week 10

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 20.12.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 12
Section 5 Excercises
  • Questions 44-56
Section 6 Excercises
  • Questions 11-14, 17-29

Homework - 8 --- Week 11

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 27.12.2019, 11:59am.

Chapter 13
Section 1 Excercises
  • Questions 46, 48, 50, 56, 57, 58, 64, 66, 85, 88
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 2, 14, 34, 50, 68, 71, 74
Section 3 Excercises
  • Questions 53-60

Homework - 9 --- Week 12

Solve the following questions in your book, and upload the solutions using this link.
The deadline for this homework is 15.01.2020, 11:59am.

Chapter 13
Section 4 Excercises
  • Questions 25-45
Chapter 14
Section 1 Excercises
  • Questions 37-52
Section 2 Excercises
  • Questions 29-40
Section 3 Excercises
  • Questions 35-46
Section 4 Excercises
  • Questions 51-54, 57-60, 63-64