{"product_id":"quantitative-reasoning-isbn-9781118406830","title":"Quantitative Reasoning","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Second Edition of Quantitative Reasoning empowers students to use quantitative information to make responsible financial, environmental, and health-related decisions in their daily lives. Students develop their critical thinking skills through numerous examples, explorations, and activities featuring real data. Students use a variety of analysis throughout the text: inductive and deductive reasoning; tabular, symbolic, verbal, and graphical forms of functions and relations; graphs and pictorial representations of data; interpretations of probabilistic data; surveys and statistical studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSevilla and Somer's \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuantitative Reasoning, 2nd Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e comes available with WileyPLUS, a research-based, online environment for effective teaching and learning, which takes the guesswork out of studying by providing them with a clear roadmap: what to do, how to do it, and whether they did it right.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WileyPLUS sold separately from text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnnotated Contents xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Student xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Instructor xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: Numerical Reasoning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 1: Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 1.1: World Motor Vehicle Production: Bar Graphs and Pie Charts 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 1.2: Medical Data and Class Data: Graphs with Excel 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 1.3: SATs and the Super Bowl: Creating and Interpreting Histograms 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 2: Bivariate Data 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 2.1: Estimating Dates: Scatterplots 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 2.2: State Governors’ Salaries and Per Capita Income: More on Scatterplots 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 3: Graphs of Functions 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 3.1: Temperature Patterns: Functions and Line Graphs 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 3.2: Rates of Change and Concavity 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 4: Multiple Variable Functions 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 4.1: Blood Alcohol Levels and Credit Cards: Working with More Than Two Variables 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 5: Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 5.1: Rates of Change and Linear Functions 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 6: Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 6.1: The Genie’s Offer: Exponential Growth and Linear Growth 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 6.2: Lines of Best Fit 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 7: Logarithms and Scientific Notation 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 7.1: Richter Scale and Logarithms 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 7.2: Estimations, Scientifc Notation, and Properties of Logarithms 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 8: Indexes and Ratings 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 8.1: Measurement Difficulties and Indexes 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 8.2: Consumer Indexes 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 9: Personal Finances 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 9.1: Mortgages 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 10: Introduction to Problem Solving 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 10.1: Savings and Loans: Problem Solving and Using Scroll Bars 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 10.2: Asking and Answering a Research Question 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: Logical Reasoning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 11: Decision Making 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 11.1: Ranking Cities: Ratings and Decisions 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 12: Inductive Reasoning 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 12.1: Analyzing Studies: Inductive Reasoning 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 13: Deductive Reasoning 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 13.1: Code-Breaking and Deductive Reasoning 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 13.2: Compound Statements Used in Reasoning 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 13.3: Quantified Statements and Deductive Reasoning: Direct and Indirect Reasoning 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 14: Apportionment 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 14.1: Methods of Apportionment: Quota Methods 409\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 14.2: Apportionment: Divisor Methods 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 15: More on Problem Solving 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 15.1: Making a Purchase Decision 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: Statistical Reasoning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 16: Averages and Five-Number Summary 436\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 16.1: Visualizing Football Scores: Measures of Center and Spread 457\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 17: Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 17.1: Coins, Presidents, and Justices: Normal Distributions and z-Scores 485\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 18: Basics of Probability 492\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 18.1: Simulations 511\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 18.2: Finding Probabilities 517\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 19: Conditional Probability and Tables 522\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 19.1: Diagnostic Testing and Conditional Probability 543\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 20: Sampling and Surveys 550\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 20.1: Sampling and Surveys 569\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopic 21: More on Decision Making 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActivity 21.1: To Purchase a Warranty or Not: Making a Decision 593\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExcel Commands by Activity 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlicia Sevilla\u003c\/b\u003e has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University and is Professor of Mathematics at Moravian College, where 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She participated in the two FIPSE projects that produced the COMPANION TO CALCULUS and mentored other institutions to adopt the integrated approach. She recently served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and was co-director of a National Science Foundation grant to develop and implement a quantitative reasoning course. She is an active member of the Mathematical Association of America, and serves as Coordinat.","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989897036005,"sku":"NP9781118406830","price":93.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118406830.jpg?v=1761785832","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/quantitative-reasoning-isbn-9781118406830","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}