I like there being both exercises and solutions for the exercises. Personally, I would like to see some вЂњartworkвЂќ added to the presentation, but it works fine without it. Some of the latter topics are well beyond the scope that would be covered, but I find them very interesting, nonetheless. For my institution this is a survey course. I chose to look at this text because I regularly teach a Finite Mathematics class to entry level freshmen. I find nothing in this presentation that would be offensive to anyone on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, religious or sexual preference One noted spelling error, as noted above (page 279) Generally the tables and diagrams are well laid out (the exception being many pixilated tree diagrams and Venn diagrams in the material on Sets and Counting and Probability) There is no real вЂњartworkвЂќ in the presentation, no pictures or photographs. There is little need to artificially subdivide given that the material is already fairly well sectioned out with topics appropriately arranged and flow from topic to topic is logical and developmentally arrangedДЄs discussed in previous sections, the material builds logically with necessary material covered adequately in most places to build new concepts. Language and content are consistent with other traditional texts the framework and presentation, except where noted above flow well and topics are tied together as necessary The material is up-top-date with only minor references to вЂњdatedвЂќ entities in applications (Ma Bell and Pa Bell in Markov Chains) the necessary changes would be quickly and easily madeДЄs far as a mathematics text goes, it is remarkably readable there is minimal use of вЂњtechnical jargonвЂќ beyond what is necessary to the material Uses three separate, unrelated notations for complements of setsД®rror on page 221 вЂ“ P(E | F is missing a closing parenthesisД®rror on page 225 вЂ“ centering for P(E | F) = P(E) for consistencyД®rror on page 279 вЂ“ P(Walked Wednesday | Bicycled Monday) is not 3/5/16 and Bicycled misspelled in the next line (Bicycleed) Terminology of matrices (rows and columns) is assumedДЄssumes familiarity with graphing linear inequalities with no development and doesnвЂ™t address вЂњtest pointsвЂќДoes not address any finance operations involving unknown times or number of periods of awarding interest No discussion of parallel or perpendicular lines in linear equations the notation 3/2x is confusing for slope, (3/2)x would be better There are places where concepts are assumed to be in possession of the students without benefit of coverage There are no major contextual errors in the text. The material adequately covers the subject and there is a reliable glossary and index.ДЄs a text for an entry level survey class, it includes more than would generally be expected of a beginning college freshman. Reviewed by David Busekist, Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University on 6/20/17 Journalism, Media Studies & Communications.

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