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Everyday Math for Everyday Life - A Handbook For When It Just Doesn't Add Up! (Paperback) Loot Price: R722
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Everyday Math for Everyday Life - A Handbook For When It Just Doesn't Add Up! (Paperback)

Mark Ryan

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MATH CAN BE EASY!
Tackle common math problems:

• Determine the gas mileage of your car

• Calculate your daily caloric intake from FDA food labels

• Convert a recipe from eight servings to ten

• Compute the true interest rate of your credit card

• Demystify the prime rate and consumer price index.

Do mental math on the spot:

• Convert foreign currencies

• Calculate discounts, markups, and sales tax

• Multiply and divide with numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions

• Convert from centigrade to Fahrenheit

• Round off the right restaurant tip.

Master probability, odds, and statistics:

• What are the odds that your next two children will both be boys?

• Which games should you play when you go to a casino?

• What is the significance of polls and their margin of error and the bell curve and standard deviation?

• Do men or women have more sex partners? The answer may surprise you!

EVERYDAY MATH FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

• TIPPING • BALANCING YOUR CHECKBOOK • CREDIT CARD INTEREST • INVESTMENTS • RECIPE CONVERSIONS • TAXES AND INFLATION • BUYING CARPETING • BASEBALL STATS • GAMBLING ODDS

A PAINLESS AND EASY GUIDE TO MAKING SENSE (AND CENTS) OUT OF NUMBERS! Let's face it, math is everywhere. In this practical guide, Mark Ryan takes the confusion, frustration, and-yes-fear out of math. You'll enjoy his jargon-free approach and you'll learn how you, too, can master math. Discover:

• How simple math equals big money when it comes to credit cards, investments, and insurance

• Basic geometry for life's essentials: mulch for the garden, fencing for the yard, carpeting for the living room, water for your pool

• How to take the guesswork out of cooking: from adjusting servings to converting measurements

• How to help your kids with math

• How to compute compound interest and mortgage payments

• Sports math: calculate a pitcher's earned run average or the win/loss ratio of your child's soccer team

• How to use the functions on a calculator or do simple math in your head...and much more!

Now, even the most die-hard math-haters, mathaphobes, and the numerically impaired can do the math!

General

Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2002
First published: December 2002
Authors: Mark Ryan
Dimensions: 229 x 159 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67726-4
Categories: Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Advice on careers & achieving success
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LSN: 0-446-67726-4
Barcode: 9780446677264

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