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Finite Mathematics Solving Problems in Business, Economics, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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ISBN-10: 0130199583

ISBN-13: 9780130199584

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bill Armstrong, Don Davis

List price: $120.00
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For courses in Mathematics for Business, Finite Mathematics, and Applied Calculus. This text, modern in its writing style as well as in its applications, contains numerous exercisesboth skill oriented and applications, real data problems, and a problem solving method. Its exercises are based on data from the World Wide Web, and allow students to see for themselves how mathematics is used in everyday life.
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Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/28/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English

Before beginning his career as an author of true crime books, Don Davis worked for 30 years as a UPI correspondent on various assignments, including the Vietnam War and the White House beat. His works since have covered major crimes of the 1990s. They include Bad Blood: The Shocking True Story Behind the Menendez Killings (1994) and The Milwaukee Murders: Nightmare in Apartment 213: The True Story (1991) about the Jeffrey Dahmer case. Davis's other works include his first novel, Appointment With the Squire (1997), about World War II, and another novel, The Gris-Gris Man (1997), a story about voodoo killings in New Orleans. In addition to being a writer and reporter, Davis was an instructor…    

Linear Models and Systems of Linear Equations
Problem Solving: Linear Equations
Linear Functions
Linear Models
Solving Systems of Linear Equations Graphically
Solving Systems of Linear Equations Algebraically
Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices
Matrices and Gauss-Jordan Elimination
Matrices and Operations
Matrix Multiplication
Matrix Inverses and Solving Systems of Linear Equations
Leontief Input-Output Models
Linear Programming: The Graphical Method
Problem Solving: Linear Inequalities
Graphing Systems of Linear Inequalities
Solving Linear Programming Problems Graphically
Applications of Linear Programming
Linear Programming: The Simplex Method
Introduction to The Simplex Method
Simplex Method: Standard Maximum Form Problems
Simplex Method: Standard Minimum Form Problems and Duality
Simplex Method: Nonstandard Problems
Mathematics of Finance
Simple Interest
Compound Interest
Future Value of an Annuity
Present Value of an Annuity
Sets and the Fundamentals of Probability
Problem Solving: Probability and Statistics
Sets and Set Operations
Principles of Counting
Introduction to Probability
Computing Probability using the Addition Rule
Computing Probability using the Multiplication Rule
Bayes' Theorem and Its Applications
Graphical Data Description
Graphing Qualitative Data
Graphing Quantitative Data
Measures of Centrality
Measures of Dispersion
Probability Distributions
Discrete Random Variables
Expected Value and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random Variable
The Binomial Distribution
The Normal Distribution
Markov Chains
Introduction to Markov Chains
Regular Markov Chains
Absorbing Markov Chains
Chapter 10 Game Theory
Strictly Determined Games
Mixed Strategies
Game Theory and Linear Programming
Appendices
Prerequisites for Finite Mathematics
Percents, Decimals and Fractions
Evaluating Expressions and Order of Operations
Properties of Integer Exponents
Rational Exponents and Radicals
Algebra Review
Multiplying Polynomial Expressions
Factoring Trinomials
Solving Linear Equations
Solving Quadratic Equations
Properties of Logarithms
Geometric Sequence and Series
Calculator Programs
Standard Normal Table