Description

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This is a mathematics book which is suitable for students in high schools colleges. It will also serve as a useful tool for students who are preparing for entrance examinations into colleges and universities. The step by step explanations presented in the numerous worked examples are easy to understand since care was taken to sufficiently explain salient points and mathematical ideas. Note that the beginning of this book covers arithmetic which is the basic foundation of mathematics, and is needed to excel in mathematics. Numerous exercises at the end of each chapter are intended to test students' understanding of the topic. The answers to the exercises are provided at the end of the book so that students can use it to check how correct the solutions to their exercises are.

The topics covered in this textbook include:

• REVIEW OF BASIC ARITHMETIC
• FRACTIONS
• WORD PROBLEMS INVOLVING FRACTIONS
• DECIMALS
• PERCENTAGE
• SIMPLE INTEREST
• COMPOUND INTEREST
• RATIO
• RATE
• PROPORTIONAL DIVISION
• AVERAGES
• MIXTURES
• WORK AND TIME PROBLEM
• COLLECTION AND TABULATION OF DATA
• MEAN, MEDIAN AND MODE OF UNGROUPED DATA
• COLLECTION AND TABULATION OF GROUPED DATA
• MEAN, MEDIAN AND MODE OF GROUPED DATA
• MEAN DEVIATION
• VARIANCE AND STANDARD DEVIATION
• QUARTILES AND PERCENTILES BY INTERPOLATION METHOD
• THE BASIC THEORY OF PROBABILITY
• PROBABILITY ON SIMPLE EVENTS
• PROBABILITY ON PACK OF PLAYING CARDS
• PROBABILITY ON TOSSING OF COINS
• PROBABILITY ON THROWING OF DICE
• MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS ON PROBABILITY

Students will find these topics well simplified, thereby making mathematics more interesting. A constructive review of this mathematics eBook will be highly appreciated from buyers so as to give an overview to others who intend to purchase a copy of this book, and also to serve as a form of advice to the author to use when revising the book.