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Intermediate calculations are all of the calculations you make up until your final answer. So if one of the steps was 3/4 = .75 and then you had to multiply it by 17, you would leave it as .75 and multiply that by 17 giving you 12.75. If 12.75 was what you got for the very last step then you would round that to 13 as it would be the nearest whole number.
Intermediate algebra is not harder, it's a remedial algebra class. So it's basically high school algebra. College algebra is very different. Intermediate still deals with polynomial equations and all that jazz. College is purely graphs. Graphing equations, looking at graphs and formulas and figuring out what is what. I whizzed through algebra 1 and intermediate. Then I barely got a B in college algebra. And it wasn't just me, several people dropped it because it was much more difficult.