Business Math: Practical Applications

This top seller continues to offer a comprehensive and effective demonstration of mathematical basic concepts through extensive use of business examples taken from real-world applications in such areas as banking, the hotel/motel industry, retail, and real estate. Direct, friendly, and visually appealing, it offers an adaptable self-instructional or teacher-directed format, and myriad motivational tools to stimulate interest and deepen understanding. The volume encompasses all areas of business mathematics—beginning with skill-building sections on whole numbers and decimals; guiding readers through fractions, percents, statistics, and equations; then easing them into the specifics of business-related mathematics applications with discussions on payroll, discounts, markup/markdown, interest, credit and more. For individuals in business, banking, hotel/motel industries, retail and real estate needing an introduction or review of business math skills.