I decided to take this course because it went towards my major of Pre-Pharmacy. I actually have to take up to Calculus II at my college and I don't know why because all the pre-Pharmacy schools I'm looking at only require Calculus I...

Anyways, I haven't taken a math class in a while, but I've been refreshed on a lot of math upwards to the introductory Calculus level. I got my textbook today and have glanced at it and I see all these strange symbols you see from Calculus and I'm wondering if you'll need some knowledge of Calculus to be successful in this course?

Any advice, also? My class is every Saturday morning 4 hours straight.

Without more information we cannot tell what level a course called introductory statistics is pitched at. If you can post the title/author of you text, so we can look it up on Amazon (and thus determine the level of the course).

CB

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The title of the book is called Introductory Statistics and the author is Neil A. Weiss.

Amazon.com: Introductory Statistics plus MyStatLab Student Starter Kit (8th Edition) (9780321417282): Neil A. Weiss: Books

I had an intro to stats class a while back, from that and most others that I have seen you shouldn't need any calculus. You may see some symbols here and there but you'll most likely just be plugging numbers into a formula and not too much more beyond that. Beyond that, I would say that if calc is not a prereq. then you shouldn't have to use it, most schools are pretty good about that stuff in general.

That looks like a non-calculus text to me.

CB

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Okay, I bought a Ti-84 for this class and I think it'll be sufficient to handle the work. Whatcha guys think? I was going to buy the Ti-89 but that calculator is not allowed.

The TI-84 will be able to handle the calculations. The TI-89 is overkill for an introductory statistics class, but could be used (I wouldn't advise it; the TI-89 has a few more features, but not necessary for the class you're taking).

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