Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus

✍ Scribed by Stefan Waner, Steven Costenoble

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1364
• Edition: 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

FINITE MATHEMATICS AND APPLIED CALCULUS, Seventh Edition, uses a large number of applications based on real data from business, economics, and the life and social sciences to help you see how mathematics relates to your own life and interests. Thorough spreadsheet and TI Graphing Calculator instructions appears throughout the text, and optional WebAssign platform include detailed teaching videos by an award-winning instructor. With these tools, plus the authors' website with online "game mode" tutorials and videos on every topic, this text will help you "get" mathematics, whatever your learning style may be.

✦ Table of Contents

Brief Contents
Contents
0 Precalculus Review
1 Functions and Applications
2 Nonlinear Functions and Models
3 The Mathematics of Finance
4 Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices
5 Matrix Algebra and Applications
6 Linear Programming
7 Sets and Counting
8 Probability
9 Random Variables and Statistics
10 Introduction to the Derivative
11 Techniques of Differentiation with Applications
12 Further Applications of the Derivative
13 The Integral
14 F urther Integration Techniques andApplications of the Integral
15 Functions of Several Variables
16 Trigonometric Models
Appendix A: Logic
Appendix B: Area under a Normal Curve
Answers to Selected Exercises
Index