Practical Business Math Procedures, Brief Edition with Business Math Handbook, Student DVD, and WSJ insert

by Slater, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780077362362
• ISBN10: 0077362365
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-04-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

Practical Business Math Procedures Brief Editionis a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and applications of mathematics to personal and commercial business problems. The text uses basic arithmetic and problem solving techniques and illustrates their use in retailing, interest and loans, banking, payroll, taxes, investments, insurance, and a variety of other business situations. The text is well known for the motivating integration of interesting real world examples and photos from the Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger's, and many other business journals.Slateris the most popular and widely used book for this course and is carefully written and developed to support students with little math experience with practice quizzes, thousands of exercises, color coded procedures and diagrams, supporting tutorial videos on DVD, and the highest standards of reliability and cleanliness.

Table of Contents

Practical Business Math Procedures Brief Edition, 10th Edition

Chapter 1: Whole Numbers: How to Dissect and Solve Word Problems

Chapter 2: Fractions

Chapter 3: Decimals

Chapter 4: Banking

Chapter 5: Solving for the Unknown: A How-To Approach for Solving Equations

Chapter 6: Percents and Their Applications

Chapter 7: Discounts: Trade and Cash

Chapter 8: Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and Breakeven Analysis

Chapter 9: Payroll

Chapter 10: Simple Interest

Chapter 11: Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process

Chapter 12: Compound Interest and Present Value

Appendix A: Additional Homework by Learning Unit

Appendix B: Worked Out Solutions to Extra Practice Quizzes

Appendix C: Check Figures

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix E: Metric System