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    <title>For all practical purposes: mathematical literacy in today's world</title>
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    <title>Mathematical literacy in today's world</title>
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    <namePart>Garfunkel, Solomon</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>W.H. Freeman and Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2013</dateIssued>
    <edition>9th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xviii, 867, 4, 30, 8 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Management science: Urban services -- Business efficiency -- Planning and scheduling -- Linear programming -- Statistics: the science of data: Exploring data: distributions -- Exploring data: relationships -- Data for decisions -- Probability: the mathematics of chance -- Voting and social choice: Social choice: the impossible dream -- The manipulability of voting systems -- Electing the president -- Fairness and game theory: Fair division -- Apportionment -- Game theory: the mathematics of competition -- The digital revolution: Identification numbers -- Information science -- On size and growth: Growth and form -- Symmetry and patterns -- Tilings -- Your money and resources: Savings models -- Borrowing models -- The economics of resources -- </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Solomon Garfunkel … [et. al]</note>
  <note>By the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
    <topic>Textbooks</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mathematical readiness</topic>
    <topic>Textbooks</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781429243162 (alk. paper : student ed. : hardcover)</identifier>
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