<p>I'm currently pursuing a business AA and plan on transferring to Univ. after graduation. I'm trying to get through the 60 credits as fast as possible without any blemishes on my GPA. My question is this, In order to fully comprehend business calculus should I first take precalculus or will college algebra and stats be sufficient?</p>
<p>(mods, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, first post)</p>
<p>I don’t know what all your business calc will cover. Here business students take normal math major calc and precal is very useful because calc assumes you know a lot of things like trig that you just wouldn’t have covered much, if at all, in a college algebra class. Then again, here most business students have a 5 on at least one of the calculus AP exams from high school and test out of algebra and precal if they don’t.</p>
<p>Thank you, that does help clear things up. I have one more question. My school offers precal with trig and also precal with algebra, should I take the trig option instead of alg?</p>
<p>business calculus is a joke, if you think you are competent and able in math, you should be able to understand biz-calc easily.</p>
<p>don’t let my name fool you, haha.</p>
<p>Although I took four semesters of Calculus, I never, ever had use of it for business subjects. In fact, I don’t even know what business Calculus is.
Frankly, I think you would be better off taking statistics.</p>
<p>Business calculus at most schools is just a watered version of introductory calculus. The courses tend to shy away from trig functions, spend a lot of time on pre-calculus review, and cover the basics of derivatives and applications (minimizing costs, maximizing profit, etc.) They don’t have this course at the college I attend, but I’ve had several friends at large public universities take it.</p>
<p>You should check what your business calc covers. As stated above, some business calc courses don’t cover any trig functions. I would have to agree that for the most part, business calc is a joke, and also that I too have yet to use calc in my day to day work (not to say others don’t)</p>
<p>Most business programs will require you to take at least one semester of calculus and one semester of statistics. You will need what you learn for later courses in modeling etc.</p>