INSTRUCTOR’S TESTING MANUAL FOR USING & UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICS, A QUANTITATIVE REASONING APPROACH SEVENTH EDITION-Thinking Critically
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1A Living in the Media Age.....................................
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INSTRUCTOR’S TESTING MANUAL FOR USING & UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICS, A QUANTITATIVE REASONING APPROACH SEVENTH EDITION-Thinking Critically
Table of Contents
1A Living in the Media Age.......................................................................1
1B Propositions and Truth Values .............................................................9
1C Sets and Venn Diagrams ....................................................................17
1D Analyzing Arguments.........................................................................29
1E Critical Thinking in Everyday Life ....................................................37
2 Approaches to Problem Solving
2A Understand, Solve, and Explain .........................................................46
2B Extending Unit Analysis.....................................................................52
2C Problem-Solving Hints.......................................................................58
3 Numbers in the Real World
3A Uses and Abuses of Percentages ........................................................66
3B Putting Numbers in Perspective .........................................................74
3C Dealing with Uncertainty ...................................................................80
3D Index Numbers: The CPI and Beyond................................................88
3E How Numbers Can Deceive: Polygraphs,
Mammograms, and More ...................................................................96
4 Managing Money
4A Taking Control of Your Finances.....................................................108
4B The Power of Compounding ............................................................114
4C Savings Plans and Investments.........................................................120
4D Loan Payments, Credit Cards, and Mortgages.................................126
4E Income Taxes....................................................................................132
4F Understanding the Federal Budget ...................................................140
5 Statistical Reasoning
5A Fundamentals of Statistics................................................................146
5B Should You Believe a Statistical Study? ..........................................154
5C Statistical Tables and Graphs ...........................................................162
5D Graphics in the Media ......................................................................172
5E Correlation and Causality .................................................................176
6 Putting Statistics to Work
6A Characterizing Data ..........................................................................186
6B Measures of Variation ......................................................................194
6C The Normal Distribution ..................................................................202
6D Statistical Inference ..........................................................................210
7 Probability: Living with the Odds
7A Fundamentals of Probabilit
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