All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide / Edition 1

by Steve Slavin, Stephen L. Slavin

Overview

A sharp mind, like a healthy body, is subject to the same ruleof nature: Use it or lose it

Need a calculator just to work out a 15 percent service charge? Not exactly sure how to get the calculator to give you the figureyou need? Turn to this revised and updated edition of All the MathYou'll Ever Need, the friendliest, funniest, and easiest workoutprogram around.

In no time, you'll have total command of all the powerfulmathematical tools needed to make numbers work for you. In adollars-and-cents, bottom-line world, where numbers influenceeverything, none of us can afford to let our math skills atrophy.This step-by-step personal math trainer:

• Refreshes practical math skills for your personal andprofessional needs, with examples based on everyday situations.
• Offers straightforward techniques for working with decimals and fractions.
• Demonstrates simple ways to figure discounts, calculatemortgage interest rates, and work out time, rate, and distance problems.
• Contains no complex formulas and no unnecessary technical terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471317517
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/28/1999
Series:	Wiley Self-Teaching Guides Series , #148
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,125,390
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

STEVE SLAVIN, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. He is the author of several textbooks and self-teaching guides, including Quick Business Math, Math for Your First and Second Grader, and Economics (all from Wiley).

Table of Contents

Getting Started.

Simple Multiplication.

Long Multiplication.

Division.

Fast Multiplication and Division.

Multiplying and Dividing with Decimals.

Converting Fractions into Decimals and Decimals intoFractions.

Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Fractions.

Advanced Word Problems.

Percentages.

Negative Numbers.

The Isolation of x.

Exponents and Square Roots.

Ratios and Proportions.

Finding the Areas of Rectangles and Triangles.

Finding the Circumferences and Areas of Circles.

Rate, Time, and Distance Problems.

Finding x: Avanced Problems.

Interest Rates.

Big Numbers.

A Taste of Statistics.

Personal Finances.

Business Math.

Review.

Index.