Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus

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. 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