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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: This is an excellent book on how to solve all of the common algebra word problems, such as mixture, distance, coin, and age problems, etc. There are numerous examples of each type of problem. What is really great is that the author shows you how to model the problems with easy to understand diagrams. It would be hard to find a better written book in my opinion.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book!
Comment: I had my last math class 10 years ago, now I decided to take a GMAT test and needed to refresh my basic math skills, in particular the word problems. This book was great! It helped me get a good score.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent, systematic way of looking at word problems
Comment: I am taking a college-level algebra class to fulfill some pre-reqs. I really regret that my high school algebra texts never devoted a full section on word problems, as this book does. I see now that's why I never really "got" them. This book categorizes the problems by type and offers a systematic method of setting up each type. That's what I needed all along!

The only negative about the book is that there are a couple of types of problems for which the author didn't develop a drawing or chart. That's too bad, but the book has helped me immensely overall.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great reference book!
Comment: I have been studying pre-algebra (hoping to move to on to algebra soon) in order to prepare myself for an assessment test. When I saw this book while researching what books to buy so I could study and get myself up to date after many years away from school, I thought it would probably come in handy.

I had been over 1/2 way through my other book when I got stuck on a word problem. Because it was an end of the chapter quiz, I had the correct answer, but not the detailed explanation of how they got to the answer. I was already getting frustrated when I saw this book sitting on the bedside table.

I pulled the book and opened it for the first time, hoping I would be able to find what I was looking for without having to read through the chapters looking for it. What a pleasant surprise! The book has an index showing types of problems and where to find them. The problem I was having issues with was about calculating "age" so I went straight to the age section, hoping they would have a problem that was similar enough to the one I was stuck with so I could figure out what I had to do. There it was, among the 5 or 6 problems, there was one similar enough that I was able to figure mine out. I was very, very happy!

To be honest, that has been my only experience with the book so far, but in my opinion it was an experience worthy of writing this review.

Good luck!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty good
Comment: This is a fun book. I'm not really very good at algebra. This made it more interesting.

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