This reader-friendly liberal arts mathematics text is organized into three thematic parts—Life, Society, and the World—to highlight the relevance of math in everyday contexts. It features rich ideas, visualizations, and minimal prerequisite review. Topics span descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, consumer and management math, logical reasoning, voting systems, geometry, grow…
This book is designed for those portions of the market that are either price sensitive or those who are looking for a more brief text than they've been using. It has all of the breadth of the original text but with less depth. The quantitative reasoning flavor of the original text, Using and Understanding Mathematics, has been retained and will continue to be a major selling feature of this text.