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Finite Math with Applications (9th Edition) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Terrible math book
Comment: I was unfortunate enough to have this math book selected by my college for my math course. It was very unclear in its examples of how problems were figured out, and in its instructions. I would never use this book again for any math course. I thought it was the worst math book I ever used. It made the course much more difficult than it needed to be. Don't buy this book, I am sure that there are better ones on the market. But, if your school selects it for your course you had better have a better quality supplementary math book to use or you won't do well in your course.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I agree - this book is no good
Comment: I agree with Scott - this is the worst math book I've ever had to purchase. I actually had to go to the library and check out other books to get an idea of the topics that were discussed in THIS book. If you need this book for a class I suggest you do like I did and go to the library too so that you can pass because this book certainly won't help you in that aspect.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: College book for finite mathematics
Comment: This is one of the worst math books I have ever had the pleasure of using.
I usually always make A's in mathematics, and am also in Honors, but this book is a fight to understand.

The answers in the back are wrong very often, about 1-3 times per exercise. There are about 4-7 exercises per chapter @ 10 chapters. This is extremely frustrating when learning new facets of mathematics. This book is being used at University I am attending, and is not worth this level of education. The instruction in the book is very confusing, by jumping from idea to idea with no flow. First the errors have to be filtered out before any learning can be done. The course I am taking is an online course, so without a live instructor to give the correct information, one leaves completely confused. I have emailed my professor at least once per chapter to confirm my correct answer against the wrong answer in the book. Or the answer key may have extra answers i.e. problem 11 may have questions a, b, and c, and the key will have answers for a, b, c, d, and e.

TO ANY EDUCATOR LOOKING TO USE THIS BOOK FOR THE CLASSROOM, PLEASE CONSIDER ANOTHER RESOURCE, THIS BOOK IS OF VERY POOR QUALITY. Pearson should be ashamed to allow such bad editing to make it to consumers. This is the 9th (Ninth) edition printed in 2007. Math does not change enough to have such bad errors. Nor should any book be so jumbled.

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