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Basic business math : a life-skills approach / Richard P. Truchon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Truchon, Richard P.
- Series:
- Fifty-Minute series.
- The fifty-minute series book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Business mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Trust Crisp to take the misery out of math This easy book covers whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, simple equations, and percentage formulas with examples of: commissions, markups and markdowns, discounts, sales tax, simple and compound interest, and installment loans. Practice with bar, line and circle graphs, follow with just a touch of statistics-averages, medians, modes, etc. Answers included. It simply makes math work for anyone
- Contents:
- ""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHOR""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PART I Basics""; ""MATHEMATICS STUDY SKILLS""; ""TIPS""; ""THE FIVE Rs OF MATH""; ""PLAN OF ATTACK""; ""1.0 WHOLE NUMBERS""; ""1.1 Rounding Off Whole Numbers""; ""1.2 Addition of Whole Numbers""; ""1.3 Subtraction of Whole Numbers""; ""1.4 Multiplication of Whole Numbers""; ""1.5 Division of Whole Numbers""; ""2.0 FRACTIONS""; ""2.1 Proper and Improper Fractions""; ""2.2 Addition of Like Fractions""; ""2.3 Lowest Common Denominator""; ""2.4 Addition of Unlike Fractions""; ""2.5 Subtraction of Fractions""
- ""2.6 Multiplication of Fractions""""2.7 Division of Fractions""; ""3.0 DECIMALS""; ""3.1 Converting Fractions to Decimals""; ""3.2 Converting Decimals to Fractions""; ""3.3 Adding Decimal Numbers""; ""3.4 Subtracting Decimal Numbers""; ""3.5 Rounding Off Decimal Numbers""; ""3.6 Multiplying Decimal Numbers""; ""3.7 Dividing Decimal Numbers""; ""4.0 PERCENT""; ""PART II Basic Applications""; ""5.0 EQUATIONS""; ""6.0 FORMULAS""; ""PART III Practical Applications""; ""7.0 THE PERCENTAGE FORMULA""; ""7.1 Solving Problems with the Percentage Formula""; ""7.2 Commissions""
- ""7.3 Percent Increase (Markup)""""7.4 Percent Decrease (Markdown)""; ""7.5 Discount""; ""7.6 Sales Tax""; ""7.7 Property Tax""; ""7.8 Simple and Compound Interest""; ""7.9 Installment Loans""; ""PART IV Graphs and Statistics""; ""8.0 BAR GRAPHS""; ""9.0 LINE GRAPHS""; ""10.0 CIRCLE GRAPHS""; ""11.0 STATISTICAL MATH""; ""POST TEST""; ""EXERCISE ANSWERS""; ""POST TEST ANSWERS""; ""GLOSSARY THE LANGUAGE OF ALGEBRA""; ""THE METRIC SYSTEM""
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Basic business mathematics. c1990.
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-2476-6
- OCLC:
- 922967155
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