With faster pacing and less review, this is the perfect text for those students in precalculus who are going on to calculus clarity without compromise. A hallmark of this text is its focus on problem solving. Students are provided with numerous opportunities to reason and think their way through various problems. The author's goal is to get the students to see that the mathematics in this book is interesting, useful, and worth studying. Emphasis is placed on using graphic, numeric, and analytic points of view in discussing and in solving problems throughout the text.