| Complete How to Figure It |  | Author: D. Huff
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
Buy New: $29.15
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Library Binding
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 1417655526
Dewey Decimal Number: 640.151
EAN: 9781417655526
ASIN: 1417655526
Publication Date: July 1999
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Product Description
The author of How to Lie with Statistics offers easy instructions for such everyday puzzles as when to get a second mortgage and how to budget for the week, with tips on figuring using a calculator or computer.
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 there are better August 28, 2000
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
The author tries to be a wit ... rather he is really painful. Other times he goes off into blissful lotus lands and at almost every opportunity appears to be attempting to write confusing word problems for an advanced algebra class of left over from an earlier time wild eyed hippies ... I mean if you are in a commune which has dedicated itself to solar heat and raising organic apples .. here is your book ... but for me more formulae and less of the cutesy stuff. Not hopeless just not 'real' useful.
I PUT OFF BUYING THIS August 14, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
because I teach math and I thought "Oh, there won't be anything in this book that I don't already know." WRONG! THis book is a browser's delight. As well as giving relatively clear directions on how to calculate a whole bunch of practical things, it gives away such secrets as how to do those annoying work word problems using only arithmetic, an easy way to do those annoying mixture word problems, how to weigh things using only nickels, the amazing relationship between nickels and the metric system,etc. Highly recommended.
 Everyday Problems Answered. July 20, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not a math book, rather its an answer book that describes how to solve those "everyday" questions we tend to have. The usefullness of this book (especially about it's plain english way of describing money issues) is truly astounding.This book discusses in easy to read "plain english" how to solve mortage and loan problems, as well as a large collection of general interest problems for the "typical" homeowner. This is a fantastic book with at least a hundred different problems solved (everything from the true worth of college, to answering annuity questions). I recommend this for anyone who wants to know "How to figure it".
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