Precalc w/ Trig or w/o?

Firstly, sorry if this is the wrong section.

I’m about to finish my first year of community college, and I need to take precalc this summer. I slacked off in high school when it came to math, and I’m going to have to play catch up this summer. I plan on studying accounting so I will be taking applied calculus 1 and 2 after this summer class.

Will I need to take precalc w/ trig for applied calculus, or is precalc w/o trig enough?

Thank you to anyone that helps. :slight_smile:

Have you had any education in trig before?

No, I haven’t. Is it required for applied calc?

So you have never worked with sines and cosines, for example?

I don’t know what the difference between applied calc and regular calc is, but if you have to take through calc 2 you’re going to need trig. If you ever have to take physics as a gen ed you’ll need it there too.

Maybe you could get ahold of the syllabi for your calc classes and see what they entail? Trig was so much of my calc classes that I have a hard time believing they avoid it entirely in business calc classes, but maybe they do.

Also try talking to an advisor?

Calc will require some knowledge of trig.

Check the prerequisites for the calculus courses you intend to take.

Generally, calculus courses will require trigonometry as a prerequisite, although a lightweight calculus for business majors may or may not.