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    <title>Basic college mathematics</title>
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    <namePart>Tobey,John.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Slater,Jeffrey</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Upper Saddle River</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Paerson</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>6th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xxiii,670 p.: ill,; 27 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Whole numbers: Understanding whole number -- Adding whole numbers -- Subtracting whole numbers -- Multiplying whole numbers -- Dividing whole numbers -- Exponents and the order of operations -- Rounding and estimating -- Solving applied problem involving whole numbers -- Fractions: Understanding fractions -- Simplifying fraction -- Converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers -- Multiplying fractions and mixed numbers -- Dividing fractions and mixed numbers -- The Least common denominator and creating equivalent fractions -- Adding and subtracting fractions -- Adding and subtracting mixed numbers and the order of operations -- Solving applied problems involving fractions -- Decimals: Using decimal notation -- Comparing,ordering,and rounding decimals -- Adding and subtracting decimals -- Multiplying decimals -- Dividing decimals -- Converting fraction to decimals and the order of operations -- Estimating and solving applied problem involving decimals -- Ratio and proportion: Ratios and rates -- The concept of proportions -- Solving proportions -- Solving applied problems involving proportions -- Percent: Understanding percent -- Changing between percent,decimals,and fractions -- Solving applied percent problem -- Solving commission,percent of increase or decrease,and interest problems -- Measurement: American units -- Metric measurements:length -- Metric measurements:volume and weight -- Converting units -- Solving applied measurement problems -- Geometry: Angles -- Rectangles and squares -- Parallelogram, trapezoids,and rhombuses -- Triangles -- Square roots -- The Pythagorean theorem -- Circle -- Volume -- Similar geometric figures -- Solving applied problems involving geometry -- Statistics: Circle graphs -- Bar graphs and line graphs -- Histograms -- Mean,median,and mode -- Signed numbers: Adding signed numbers -- Subtracting signed numbers -- Multiplying and dividing signed number -- Scientific notation -- Introduction to algebra: Variable and like terms -- The distributive property -- Solving equations using the addition property -- Solving equations using the division or multiplication property -- Solving equations using two properties -- Translating English to algebra -- Solving applied problems.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John Tobey, Jeffrey Slatter and Jamie Blair</note>
  <note>Includes index,appendix and glossary </note>
  <classification authority="lcc">QA39.3.T63</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780132085151</identifier>
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