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(More customer reviews)I am really sorry for the pun ( plain Jane )in the title I gave but I was expecting more than a boring rehash .
It seems the book has been put together to advertise for other books written by the author previously for the Dummies series.
An example of this : on page 14 in the paragraph before the last she writes " Tables of information can be transformed into spreadsheets of matrices ...(Matrices aren't covered in this book, but if you'd like, you can find information on them in Algebra II For Dummies, published by Wiley).
She did not even mention she is the author of this Algebra II . I could give other examples of plugs either for her other Dummies books or writer colleagues in the Dummies series.
NO problems or exercises to solve at the end of each chapter with their solutions but one or two lone simple solved problems after explaining the concept.
On page 12, to explain Exponents , she took three lonely short lines and that's it.
The numbers are difficult to read as they are printed in small size , as for example on fractions : you will need strong correcting lenses to read the fractions .
She tends to take one full page to explain " rounding to the nearer digit " with only three examples. I would have preferred fewer words to explain but MORE solved exercises.
Nevertheless, she did take the time to explain the concepts with a simple exercise or problem.
Worth reading ? Yes, but to gain a command you will need a Schaum's Outline Business Mathematics Schaum's Outline of Basic Business Mathematics, 2ed (Schaum's Outline Series) to really feel in control.
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