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Includes index Problem solving and critical thinking -- Set theory -- Logic -- Number representation and calculation -- Number theory and the real number system -- Algebra: equations and inequalities -- Algebra: graphs, functions, and linear systems -- Consumer mathematics and financial management -- Measurement -- Geometry -- Counting methods and probability theory -- Statistics -- Mathematical systems -- Voting and apportionment -- Graph theory.
Donor alibris Edition 2nd ed. These scenarios are then revisited in the chapter or section. Interesting applications from all disciplines, supported by up-to-date, real-world data, are included in every section. Students see how mathematics can be used to solve real problems. The latest applications and real-world data are compiled from hundreds of books, magazines, newspapers, almanacs, and online sites. For the Fifth Edition, worked-out examples and application exercises are based on new data.
Blitzer Bonus enrichment essays appear throughout the text, covering a variety of interesting applications. Clearly stated section objectives help students recognize and focus on the most important ideas.
Objectives are restated in the margin when the concept appears in the text. Conversational annotations help students understand the solutions by providing the reasoning behind the mathematics. Voice balloons translate mathematical language into plain English, clarifying problem-solving procedures, presenting alternative ways of understanding, and connecting complex problems to the basic concepts students have already learned. Check Points follow each worked example with a similar problem so students have an opportunity to immediately test comprehension through additional practice.
The answers to the Check Points are provided in the answer section. Study Tip boxes offer suggestions for problem solving, point out common errors to avoid, and provide informal hints and suggestions. By seeing common mistakes, students learn to avoid them.
Extensive, well-organized exercise sets parallel Examples at the end of each section. This parallel arrangement enables students to refer to the titled examples and their detailed explanations to successfully complete the practice exercises. End-of-chapter material is designed to help students review and study. Chapter review grids summarize key definitions and important concepts with examples to direct students to the most important material.
Chapter Tests enable students to assess their understanding of the contents from the entire chapter. In addition, MyMathLab provides instructors with a rich and flexible set of text-specific resources, including course management tools to support online, hybrid, or traditional courses. MyMathLab is available to qualified adopters. For more information, visit our website at www.
New assignable MyMathLab questions are available that correlate to chapter- and section-opening applications, letting instructors assign questions that are connected to the applications in the textbook. These questions emphasize the highly relevant applications for which this book is known.
Assistance is provided for faculty in the following areas: Suggested syllabus consultation Tips on using materials packaged with the book Book-specific content assistance Teaching suggestions, including advice on classroom strategies.
New to This Edition. Longer answers are in the back of the book. New applications and real-world data, compiled from hundreds of books, magazines, newspapers, almanacs, and online sites, illustrate mathematical applications. Revised exercises throughout the book encourage reasoning skills, rather than providing guidance and instructions that cause students to solve problems mechanically. True-false exercises are also revised, so that if a statement is false, students are asked how to edit the statement to make it true.
These questions ask students to determine whether statements are sensible and then explain why or why not, encouraging students to think critically and put their thoughts into words. Content and organizational changes include: Section 1. Section 2. Chapter 3 Logic has additional voice balloons attached to the truth tables to clarify the truth values in the columns. Section 3. Chapter 4 Section 4.
Section 4. Chapter 5 Section 5. More exercises with mixed numbers appear in the exercise set. Section 5. There are more exercises on using properties of exponents to simplify exponential expressions. Chapter 6 Section 6. Proportions and variation are no longer discussed in a separate section. Section 6. Many of the new applications in the Fifth Edition include both art and music. Chapter 7 Section 7. This is followed by a new applied example on stopping distances for cars at various speeds.
Section 7. The exercise set contains supply-and-demand models in forms students will encounter if they take an economics course. Section 8. This new section includes the content that reviewers agreed students would retain and be able to use comfortably. Because most credit cards calculate interest using the average daily balance method, this is now the only method discussed, with examples and exercises on how to compute an average daily balance manually.
Chapter 9 Measurement contains more application problems in each exercise set. Chapter 10 Section
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