Bibliograph

All the math you'll ever need, a self-teaching guide, Carolyn C. Wheater, Steve Slavin

Type

Label

All the math you'll ever need, a self-teaching guide, Carolyn C. Wheater, Steve Slavin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All the math you'll ever need

Oclc number

1304834885

Responsibility statement

Carolyn C. Wheater, Steve Slavin

Series statement

Wiley self-teaching guides

Sub title

a self-teaching guide

Summary

"All the Math You'll Ever Need, Third Edition is a practical, accessible guide that helps readers understand mathematical concepts that directly apply to daily life tasks. From learning to calculate monthly mortgage payments and time to pay off a credit card balance, this book helps readers understand how and why mathematical concepts work. This revised edition will reflect recent changes in rates, prices, and wages. It will also incorporate information on intelligent and efficient use of calculators and introduce mental math techniques that improve estimation skills. The primary addition to this revision is a new statistics chapter that features basic coverage of measures of spread and understanding common graphs"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Getting started -- Essential arithmetic -- Focus on multiplication -- Focus on division -- Mental math -- Positive and negative numbers -- Fractions -- Decimals -- Converting fractions and decimals -- Ratios and proportions -- Solving problems -- Area and perimeter -- Circumference and area -- Percentages -- Solving simple equations -- Powers and roots -- Very large and very small numbers -- Algebra problems -- Interest rates -- Rate, time, and distance -- Personal finance -- Business math -- A taste of statistics -- Review

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