Regardless of whether they are housewives or auto mechanics, doctors or lawyers, or students or businessmen, The Smart Guide to Practical Math provides readers with responses to the questions they want answered about everyday math. From how many pounds of hamburger are required to make meatloaf to feed 12 people to how much to invest annually to be able to send a child to college, and whether it’s really a good idea to buy fuel additive for a car, this guide provides readers with practical mathematical formulas that can serve as templates for a number of real-life scenarios.

"The Smart Guide to Practical Math provides readers with responses to the questions they want answered about everyday math,"--Amazon.com.

Practical math problems for your home, your finances, your health, your business. Practical solutions that give you the fastest, cheapest, or easiest way to do a job.

Getting a Grip on Algebra, Geometry & Trigonometry Contains hundreds of practice exercises with worked-out solutions Includes a complete glossary of mathematical terms

NEVER GET CRUNCHED BY NUMBERS AGAIN. Even in a world where every cell phone is also a calculator, basic math competency is a must! In this book, you'll learn how to efficiently solve common problems and effortlessly perform foundational math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Once you've got that down, we'll go over how to handle the scary stuff—like exponents, square roots, geometry, and algebra. Our user-friendly techniques break complicated problems down into their basic parts, so that you don't waste your time memorizing dozens of long formulas and equations. THIS THIRD EDITION INCLUDES: · Back-to-basics reviews of numbers, fractions, ratios & proportions, exponents & roots, algebra, geometry, and probability & statistics · Comprehensive reviews for solving problems in common math topics · Targeted strategies to help you score higher on the quantitative sections of the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT · Access to additional challenging drill questions online · Key math terms lists at the end of each chapter

Whether you're checking out at the supermarket or cashing in at the stock market, you need a command of basic math to survive in today's number crunching world. But most people have problems with math. A decimal here and an exponent there and you've gone from a balanced checkbook to a multi-trillion-dollar national debt. That's why The Princeton Review created Math Smart. Math Smart's approach is easy to follow. We'll show you how to perform basic math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Once you've got that down, Math Smart will teach you how to handle the scary stuff like exponents, square roots, geometry, and algebra. How does Math Smart work? It teaches you user-friendly techniques that break down complicated problems and equations into their basic parts. You won't waste your time memorizing dozens of long formulas and equations. We don't promise you'll love math, but after reading Math Smart, you'll never be crunched by numbers again.