This 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.
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By:
Alicia Sevilla (Moravian College),
Kay Somers (Moravian College)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 257mm,
Width: 201mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.247kg
ISBN: 9780470592717
ISBN 10: 0470592710
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 08 November 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Annotated Contents xi Preface xvii To the Student xxiii To the Instructor xxv Acknowledgments xxvii Section I: Numerical Reasoning Topic 1: Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs 2 Activity 1.1: World Motor Vehicle Production: Bar Graphs and Pie Charts 27 Activity 1.2: Medical Data and Class Data: Graphs with Excel 35 Activity 1.3: SATs and the Super Bowl: Creating and Interpreting Histograms 43 Topic 2: Bivariate Data 52 Activity 2.1: Estimating Dates: Scatterplots 69 Activity 2.2: State Governors’ Salaries and Per Capita Income: More on Scatterplots 75 Topic 3: Graphs of Functions 82 Activity 3.1: Temperature Patterns: Functions and Line Graphs 105 Activity 3.2: Rates of Change and Concavity 111 Topic 4: Multiple Variable Functions 118 Activity 4.1: Blood Alcohol Levels and Credit Cards: Working with More Than Two Variables 133 Topic 5: Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions 140 Activity 5.1: Rates of Change and Linear Functions 159 Topic 6: Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions 166 Activity 6.1: The Genie’s Offer: Exponential Growth and Linear Growth 185 Activity 6.2: Lines of Best Fit 191 Topic 7: Logarithms and Scientific Notation 198 Activity 7.1: Richter Scale and Logarithms 213 Activity 7.2: Estimations, Scientifc Notation, and Properties of Logarithms 219 Topic 8: Indexes and Ratings 224 Activity 8.1: Measurement Difficulties and Indexes 243 Activity 8.2: Consumer Indexes 249 Topic 9: Personal Finances 256 Activity 9.1: Mortgages 277 Topic 10: Introduction to Problem Solving 284 Activity 10.1: Savings and Loans: Problem Solving and Using Scroll Bars 299 Activity 10.2: Asking and Answering a Research Question 305 Section II: Logical Reasoning Topic 11: Decision Making 308 Activity 11.1: Ranking Cities: Ratings and Decisions 325 Topic 12: Inductive Reasoning 332 Activity 12.1: Analyzing Studies: Inductive Reasoning 345 Topic 13: Deductive Reasoning 354 Activity 13.1: Code-Breaking and Deductive Reasoning 375 Activity 13.2: Compound Statements Used in Reasoning 381 Activity 13.3: Quantified Statements and Deductive Reasoning: Direct and Indirect Reasoning 389 Topic 14: Apportionment 394 Activity 14.1: Methods of Apportionment: Quota Methods 409 Activity 14.2: Apportionment: Divisor Methods 415 Topic 15: More on Problem Solving 422 Activity 15.1: Making a Purchase Decision 433 Section III: Statistical Reasoning Topic 16: Averages and Five-Number Summary 436 Activity 16.1: Visualizing Football Scores: Measures of Center and Spread 457 Topic 17: Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions 462 Activity 17.1: Coins, Presidents, and Justices: Normal Distributions and z-Scores 485 Topic 18: Basics of Probability 492 Activity 18.1: Simulations 511 Activity 18.2: Finding Probabilities 517 Topic 19: Conditional Probability and Tables 522 Activity 19.1: Diagnostic Testing and Conditional Probability 543 Topic 20: Sampling and Surveys 550 Activity 20.1: Sampling and Surveys 569 Topic 21: More on Decision Making 578 Activity 21.1: To Purchase a Warranty or Not: Making a Decision 593 Appendix Excel Commands by Activity 597 Index 603
Alicia Sevilla has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University and is Professor of Mathematics at Moravian College, where she has taught for over 20 years. 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.
