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Precalculus (6th Edition)

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THis book is fabulous. There are clear examples with step by step instruction. It has good applications in the real world and the problems are wonderful and challenging.

A good book overall, but could be better. The explanations given by the author were difficult to understand at times, but not so difficult that you couldn't understand it after working through them a few times and doing the questions. It was still hard to get over some of their logic jumps and unexplained assumptions, though.
I thought this book used the best possible layout to build upon principles, chapter by chapter. I really didn't feel that any chapter was too easy or too difficult. A lot of thought went into planning the book so the information was learnable, but like I said above, the explanations didn't always effectively teach the information needed to solve the problems.

We requested the 6th Edition of Precalculus textbook by Sullivan, using an ISBN number for identification. The seller sent the 7th Edition which is NOT the same. I wrote him directly, told him of the error and requested returning the textbook, he responded that it was the correct one and he was not responsible. He suggested that I sell it on Amazon and that was my only recourse. I feel this is unethcial and very poorly handled. I will not purchase another textbook on Amazon after this experience.