Pre-algebra essentials for dummies. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark Zegarelli with Krista Fanning.
• Authors: Zegarelli, Mark; Fanning, Krista
• Contents: Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Chapter 1 Arming Yourself with Math Basics; Understanding Sets of Numbers; The Big Four Operations; Adding things up; Take it away: Subtracting; Multiplying; Doing division lickety-split; Fun and Useful Properties of the Big Four Operations; Inverse operations; Commutative operations; Associative operations; Distributing to lighten the load; Other Operations: Exponents, Square Roots, and Absolute Values Understanding exponentsDiscovering your roots; Figuring out absolute value; Finding Factors; Generating factors; Finding the greatest common factor (GCF); Finding Multiples; Generating multiples; Finding the least common multiple (LCM); Chapter 2 Evaluating Arithmetic Expressions; The Three E's: Equations, Expressions, and Evaluations; Equality for all: Equations; Hey, it's just an expression; Evaluating the situation; Putting the Three E's together; Following the Order of Operations; Order of operations and the Big Four expressions; Order of operations in expressions with exponents Order of operations in expressions with parenthesesChapter 3 Say What? Making Sense of Word Problems; Handling Basic Word Problems; Turning word problems into word equations; Plugging in numbers for words; Solving More-Challenging Word Problems; When numbers get serious; Lots of information; Putting it all together; Chapter 4 Figuring Out Fractions; Reducing Fractions to Lowest Terms; Multiplying and Dividing Fractions; Multiplying numerators and denominators straight across; Doing a flip to divide fractions; Adding Fractions; Finding the sum of fractions with the same denominator Adding fractions with different denominatorsSubtracting Fractions; Subtracting fractions with the same denominator; Subtracting fractions with different denominators; Working with Mixed Numbers; Converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers; Multiplying and dividing mixed numbers; Adding and subtracting mixed numbers; Chapter 5 Deciphering Decimals; Performing the Big Four Operations with Decimals; Adding decimals; Subtracting decimals; Multiplying decimals; Dividing decimals; Converting between Decimals and Fractions; Changing decimals to fractions; Changing fractions to decimals Chapter 6 Puzzling Out PercentsUnderstanding Percents Greater than 100%; Converting to and from Percents, Decimals, and Fractions; Going from percents to decimals; Changing decimals into percents; Switching from percents to fractions; Turning fractions into percents; Solving Percent Problems; Figuring out simple percent problems; Deciphering more-difficult percent problems; Applying Percent Problems; Identifying the three types of percent problems; Introducing the percent circle; Chapter 7 Fraction, Decimal, and Percent Word Problems; Adding and Subtracting Parts of the Whole
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Publishing, Inc
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510; Mathematics; MATHEMATICS / Essays; MATHEMATICS / Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS / Reference; Mathematics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119591009; 1119591007; 9781119591023; 1119591023
• Related ISBNs: 9781119590866; 1119590868
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2019)
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