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Inside you will find 3,000 solved problems with complete solutions—the largest selection of solved problems yet published on linear algebra; it's a superb index to help you quickly locate the types of problems you want to solve, and includes problems like those you'll find on your exams. In addition, you'll find techniques for choosing the correct approach to problems, and guidance on choosing the quickest and most efficient solution.

Algebra is an elementary algebra text from one of the leading mathematicians of the world -- a major contribution to the teaching of the very first high school level course in a centuries old topic -- refreshed by the author's inimitable pedagogical style and deep understanding of mathematics and how it is taught and learned. This book is about algebra. The main part of the book is made up of problems. The best way to deal with them is: Solve the problem by yourself, compare your solution with the solution in the book (if it exists), and then go to the next problem.

This easy-to-understand reference explains algebra in terms you can understand. It also gives you the necessary tools to solve complex problems.

Over the years, Barron's popular and widely-used Easy Way books have proven themselves to be accessible self-teaching manuals. Math the Easy Way includes instruction and review in whole numbers, fractions, percentages, as well as introductions to algebra and statistics. You will also find a diagnostic test and an end-of-book practice test with answers.

Each chapter opens with a motivating application that previews the mathematical concepts to be explored. Over 1,000 examples are provided; each is titled for easy reference and most include step-by-step solutions. Essay questions are also provided. Calculus Learning Tools CD-ROM comes free with each copy of the text purchased. Its variety of explorations, labs, 3-D rotatable graphs, and other tools bring calculus concepts to life.

In this classic math text, Martin Gardner has rendered calculus comprehensible to readers of all levels. With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader.

This textbook provides an introduction to statistics. It covers describing, exploring, and comparing data, probability, probability distributions, normal probability distributions, estimates and sample sizes, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and statistical process control. Assuming only a knowledge of algebra, it builds a strong foundation of conceptual and procedural understanding of statistics.

This book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining numbers. A simple read that serves to quickly introduce you to the moral underpinnings tied to the use of statistics.

Linear algebra is relatively easy for students during the early stages of the course, when the material is presented in a familiar, concrete setting. But when abstract concepts are introduced, students often hit a brick wall. Lay introduces the abstract concepts of linear algebra in a familiar, concrete setting, develops them gradually, and returns to them again and again throughout the text.

While rigorous enough to be used as a college or high school text, the book is reader friendly and clear enough to be used for self-study in a non-classroom environment. "Pre-test'' material enables readers to target problem areas quickly and skip areas that are already well understood. Chapters feature "post-tests'' for self-evaluation. Thousands of practice problems, questions and answers make this algebra review a unique and practical text.

Precalculus thoroughly explores topics in algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry, and all the examples, applications, and exercises have been selected for their relevance to calculus. The trigonometric functions are introduced first in terms of the unit circle approach and then using right triangles. The text includes over 6,000 exercises that accommodate a variety of teaching and learning styles, plus a number of contemporary, real-life applications.

This book contains 712 solved problems, with step-by-step solutions, concepts and proofs in plane geometry, trigonometry, and solid geometry, sample problems and help dealing with such complexities as trapezoids, regular polygons, methods of proof, and more.

This plain-English guide to intermediate algebra explains what algebra is all about, in language that's easy to understand. Then it shows you how to solve every kind of problem that you'll find on your tests, step-by-step. You get 885 completely worked problems, with each step in their solutions. More than a thousand additional problems let you test your skills, then check the answers.

Using playful headings to encourage students to read further, the book begins with an introduction to the "language" of statistics, and then covers descriptive statistics (from computing measures of central tendency to distributions and curve plotting to graphing data) and inferential statistics (including probability, statistical significance, correlation/regression, ANOVA, and multiple regression).

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, funny illustrations.

After years and years of teaching algebra (a subject he personally detested) to high school and college students, Kelley (the Coordinator or Preparation for the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence) has written an algebra book that will teach you, entertain you, explain things so you'll finally understand! How does this book compare to similar titles? While it contains all basic algebra topics (from fractions to matrix equations), there's also lots of practice problems with complete solutions, so you'll not only read about algebra but learn how to d

Mike Kelley, the best-selling author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Calculus and the Director of Preparation at ABCTE, has taken what appears to be a typical calculus workbook, chock full of solved calculus problems, and made legible notes in the margins, adding missing steps and simplifying solutions.

All basic topics in Trigonometry are covered with an emphasis on illustrations and examples that treat elementary trigonometry as an outgrowth of geometry, but stimulate the reader to think of all of mathematics as a unified subject. The definitions of the trigonometric functions are geometrically motivated—geometric relationships are rewritten in trigonometric form and extended. The text then makes a transition to a study of the algebraic and analytic properties of trigonometric functions, in a way that provides a solid foundation for more advanced mathematical discussions.

This text provides a painless way to learn the fundamentals and general concepts of trigonometry. It uses prose and illustrations to describe the concepts, offers questions at the end of each chapter and section, and includes a 100-question self-test.