MTH 150 Text & Exercises

Text

Bennett, Briggs, Using and Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, 4th Ed, Addison Wesley, 2005.

Student Companion Website (Note: This is for the 3rd edition, but it is still very appropriate for the 4th ed)

Exercises

Chapter 1 - Thinking Critically
1A	Recognizing Fallacies	11-20, 21,22,23,27,29,30,32,35,35
1B	Propositions & Truth Values	31-36, 39-44, 51-60, 71-76,77-82,87-93
1D	Analyzing Arguments	25-32
Chapter 2 - Approaches to Problem Solving
2A	Problem-Solving Power of Units	32,34,43,44,46,54,55,62,63,71,78,84,94
2B	Standardized Units	34-44,54,56,58,76,79,80,84,94,106
Chapter 3 - Numbers in the Real World
3A	Uses and Abuses of Percentages	49,54,61,62,64,65,67,72,75,76,79,84,85,89,94,95,98,112,119
3B	Putting Numbers in Perspective	31,39,41,42,49,50,70,76
3D	Index Numbers: CPI and Beyond	27,29,30,35,36,43
3E	How Numbers Deceive	21,24,25,27,28,30,35,36
Chapter 4 - Financial Management
4A	Taking Control of Your Finances	24,25,30-33,35,37,38,51,57,62
4B	The Power of Compounding	41,42,45-48,53,54,61,71
4D	Loan Payments, Credit Cards, and Mortgages	11,13,14,25,26,43,45,46
Chapter 5 - Statistical Reasoning
5A	Fundamentals of Statistics	14-17, 19,20,22, 27-30, 31-34, 37,38, 40-42, 45-48, 51-54, 57-59
5B	Should You Believe a Statistical Study?	15,16,19-24,31-33,45, 46, 49-54
5C	Statistical Tables and Graphs	13,14,25,26, 31-36, 38,39,40,43, 47, 49,50,53
Chapter 6 - Putting Statistics to Work
6A	Characterizing a Data Distribution	18,21,25,26,21-40
6B	Measures of Variation	19,22,27,28,31-34
6C	The Normal Distribution	15,19,20,23-28,29,30,31-34,39,51-54
6D	Statistical Inference	35-42