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Business Math Demystified

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Before reading this book, I already understood many of the concepts presented, but I had never learned them "formally", so I gave it a shot. I liked the format, the concepts were presented in small portions with quizzes after each portion (then a final quiz for the whole chapter). If I had to do it over again, I would definitely choose this book.

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My Business Math class changed to this book for our summer quarter this year. Personally I believe this was a big mistake. Throughout the quarter there has been alot of confusion and aggravation with this book not only for us, the students, but for the instructor as well. The book is riddled with errors and typos throughout the text, including the answer key. There have been countless times reading the text and working through practice problems were you'll catch the author inverting numbers throughout the solution to the problem.

It's also common practice to find that the answer key in the back of the book has the wrong answers. Which is frustrating to do homework and not be able to find their answer until next week when the instructor has to do the problem to find the book's wrong. Makes studying for our weekly in class quizes and tests an even bigger challenge then what It should be.

Some of the formula's are even incorrect or have typographical errors. Our instructor even told us he had to call his son on Wall Street to confirm that he's not "crazy" and that the formula they were using wasn't correct.

I give this book 2 stars because the chapters and formulas that are correct do make sense in an easy to understand way. But as for a bussiness math textbook, they have a long way to go to be considered a "professional" resource. I don't know much about the editor or whoever else read over this book, but it might help if they had a strong backround in math so that they can catch these errors before publishing a textbook ment to teach people the proper way to use formulas and calculations in their business.

I suggested to the Dean of Sutedents that they would've probably had better luck using Business Math For Dummies at this rate. If you're looking to buy this book, I strongly suggest waiting for a revised edition and wait for a few hundred reviews before spending your money.