INSTRUCTOR’S TESTING MANUAL FOR USING AND UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICS A QUANTITATIVE REASONING APPROACH EIGHTH EDITION-1 Thinking Critically
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1A Living in the Media Age...................................
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INSTRUCTOR’S TESTING MANUAL FOR USING AND UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICS A QUANTITATIVE REASONING APPROACH EIGHTH EDITION-1 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 Numerical Surprises: 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 Personal 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 .................................................................180
6 Putting Statistics to Work
6A Characterizing Data ..........................................................................190
6B Measures of Variation.......................................................................198
6C The Normal Distribution...................................................................206
6D Statistical Inference...........................................................................214
7 Probability: Living with the Odds
7A Fundamentals of Probability.............................................................222
7B Combining Probabilities ...................................................................230
7C The Law of Large Numbers..............................................................238
7D Assessing Risk ..................................................................................246
7E Counting and Probability..................................................................254
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