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This manual contains completely worked-out solutions for all the odd-numbered exercises in the text. ... Read more

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Featuring topics from finance, linear algebra, linear programming and probability, this text emphasizes computational skills, ideas and problem solving. The use of graphing calculators is integrated in optional examples, and the book includes exercises related to technology, illustrations of applications of spreadsheets and sample computer code. Linear programming is tested thoroughly, including applications of simplex, dual, big M, and two-phase methods for utilizing slack, surplus and artificial variables. Several sections are devoted to limits: the limit properties necessary to find derivatives by definition; continuity and graphs; and limits at infinity and infinite limits. The definite integral is introduced as a limit of Riemann sums, following the more traditional development of integration and emphasizing understanding of basic concepts.Since the previous edition, these changes have occurred: all matrix operations are covered in a single section in chapter 4; one single chapter is devoted to probability; the discussion of Markov chains has expanded to a new chapter, including discussion of absorbing chains; and chapter 15 now concentrates on the relationship between probability and calculus. ... Read more

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excellent book
I used the second edition of this book many years ago in college.Its easy to understand and does a good job of covering its intended subject matter.

A great textbook for end users of mathematics
This book is just very good. It is a top-quality, superbly on target solution for end users of mathematics. I had selected and subsequently used it as a textbook for a freshman calculus course aimed at prospectiveeconomics majors at anIvy League college. My goal was to present a broadscope of the fundamental concepts of applied mathematics relevant to thesocial sciences,while keeping the exposition at the basic level ofmathematical sophistication. Given the objective, one needs a textbook thatwould replace most proofs with carefully chosen exemplifications, rely ontechnically undemanding exercises, but enable the teacher to introduceconcepts at a lively pace and tie them to interesting applications. Thistextbook meets all the requirements.

Our course used essentially only themore advanced parts of the book.The selection of topics was systematizedby the idea of staying focused onsome of the basic mathematical methodsdesigned for solving broadly understood problems of optimization,extrapolation, and prediction.Formally, students were required to learnalgorithmic skills, like finding extrema of functions of one and severalvariables, linear programming, basic routines for ordinary differentialequations and Markov chains. Primary emphasis was put on understanding thedifferences and similarities between continuous and discrete, deterministicand random. The book served us well and we felt truly rewarded by itsamazing collection of well selected, well thought-through real-lifeapplications. I am enthusiastic about this book and so were very many of mystudents. ... Read more

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Books à la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book.

This accessible text is designed to help readers help themselves to excel. The content is organized into two parts: (1) A Library of Elementary Functions (Chapters 1—2) and (2) Calculus (Chapters 3—9). The book’s overall approach, refined by the authors’ experience with large sections of college freshmen, addresses the challenges of teaching and learning when readers’ prerequisite knowledge varies greatly. Reader-friendly features such as Matched Problems, Explore & Discuss questions, and Conceptual Insights, together with the motivating and ample applications, make this text a popular choice for today’s students and instructors. The MyMathLab course for the text features thousands of homework exercises plus instructional videos for nearly every example in the book.

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This edition features the exact same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole- punched, loose-leaf version. Books à la Carte also offer a great value–this format costs significantly less than a new textbook.

This accessible text is designed to help readers help themselves to excel. The content is organized into two parts: (1) A Library of Elementary Functions (Chapters 1—2) and (2) Calculus (Chapters 3—9). The book’s overall approach, refined by the authors’ experience with large sections of college freshmen, addresses the challenges of teaching and learning when readers’ prerequisite knowledge varies greatly. Reader-friendly features such as Matched Problems, Explore & Discuss questions, and Conceptual Insights, together with the motivating and ample applications, make this text a popular choice for today’s students and instructors.

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Student Solutions Manual for Trig Rocks!
The book is wonderful and was in excellent shape upon it's arrival. One must always have a solutions manual to be matched with the book that doesn't give very many examples. ... Read more

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Each chapter on the ESG features a pre-test, and practice problems for each section, as well as a post-test. The pre-test questions and practice problems are algorithmically generated so that each student will have different questions. ... Read more