Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 512.9 EAN: 9780131490789 ISBN: 0131490788 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 800 Publication Date: February 13, 2005 Publisher: Prentice Hall Sales Rank: 115360 Studio: Prentice Hall
Product Description This clear, accessible treatment of mathematics features a building-block approach toward problem solving, realistic and diverse applications, and chapter organizer to help users focus their study and become effective and confident problem solvers. The Putting Your Skills to Work and new chapter-end feature, Math in the Media, present readers with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills, analyze and interpret data, and problem solve using applied situations encountered in daily life. The Fourth Edition contains additional modeling and real-data coverage. A conceptual approach to functions is introduced early in the book and revisited in Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10—readers are exposed to a variety of realistic situations where functions are used to explain and record the changes we observe in the world. A discussion of solving linear equations in Chapter 2 now includes coverage of equations with no solution and equations with infinitely many solutions. The sections on determinants and Cramer's rule have been moved out of Chapter 4 into an appendix. This material can be covered with ease after Section 4.3.
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Rating: - STUDENTS: BEWARE THE ANNOTATED INSTRUCTOR'S VERSION
This regular version is the one you want.
The instructor's version can actually be bought for much cheaper (but is not at all appropriate for the student), and it appears that someone in Salem, OR has bought a huge load of the instructor's version and is NOT making it clear that they are NOT the same thing as the student version. Therefore, he/she/they are selling them for $36 and up and making it look like that's a deal when it appears to me you can actually find the instructor's version ... Read More
Rating: - Clear, concise and comprehensive
I am a mother who didn't do well in Algebra in high school. I am now having to help my 8th grade daughter with her Algebra. Having used Tobey & Slater's Basic College Math and Beginning Algebra (whenever her textbook doesn't make sense to me or to her), I am exceedingly impressed with their exceptional ability to explain clearly yet simply the mathmatical concepts. My experience with these books gave me the confidence to buy their Intermediate Algebra (4th Edition 2002). This updated edition provides ... Read More
Rating: - Missing Steps
This textbook is extremely frustrating for the novice, who, after all,will be using it! It omits critical steps in its examples, and leaves the user confused. It is very difficult to succeed in class with this book as a resource. I am online to purchase a book which has a comprehensive format, to get me through the course I'm taking!
- STUDENTS: BEWARE THE ANNOTATED INSTRUCTOR'S VERSION
- Clear, concise and comprehensive
- Missing Steps
