Quantitative Literacy Digital Update 3rd Edition Crauder ISBN: 9781319244460 TEST BANK

Quantitative Literacy Digital Update 3rd Edition Crauder ISBN: 9781319244460 TEST BANK

Test Bank for Quantitative Literacy Digital Update, 3rd Edition, Bruce Crauder, Benny Evans, Jerry Johnson, Alan Noell, ISBN: 9781319454777, ISBN: 9781319416010, ISBN: 9781319416034, ISBN: 9781319244460

Table of Contents

1 Critical Thinking
1.1 Public Policy and Simpson’s Paradox: Is “Average” Always Average
1.2 Logic and Informal Fallacies: Does That Argument Hold Water?
1.3 Formal Logic and Truth Tables: Do Computers Think?
1.4 Sets and Venn Diagrams: Pictorial Logic
1.5 Critical Thinking and Number Sense: What Do These Figures Mean?

2 Analysis of Growth
2.1 Measurements of Growth: How Fast Is It Changing?
2.2 Graphs: Picturing Growth
2.3 Misleading Graphs: Should I Believe My Eyes?

3 Linear and Exponential Change: Comparing Growth Rates
3.1 Lines and Linear Growth: What Does A Constant Rate Mean?
3.2 Exponential Growth and Decay: Constant Percentage Rates
3.3 Logarithmic Phenomena: Compressed Scales
3.4 Quadratics and Parabolas

4 Personal Finance
4.1 Saving Money: The Power of Compounding
4.2 Borrowing: How Much Car Can You Afford?
4.3 Saving for the Long Term: Build That Nest Egg
4.4 Credit Cards: Paying Off Consumer Debt
4.5 Inflation, Taxes, and Stocks: Managing Your Money

5 Introduction to Probability
5.1 Calculating Probabilities: How Likely Is It?
5.2 Medical Testing and Conditional Probability: Ill or Not?
5.3 Counting and Theoretical Probabilities: How Many?
5.4 More Ways of Counting: Permuting and Combining
5.5 Expected Value and the Law of Large Numbers: Don’t Bet on It

6 Statistics
6.1 Data Summary and Presentation: Boiling Down the Numbers
6.2 The Normal Distribution: Why the Bell Curve?
6.3 The Statistics of Polling: Can We Believe the Polls?
6.4 Statistical Inference and Clinical Trials: Effective Drugs?

7 Graph Theory
7.1 Modeling With Graphs and Finding Euler Circuits
7.2 Hamilton Circuits and Traveling Salesmen: Efficient Routes
7.3 Trees: Viral E-mails and Spell Checkers

8 Voting and Social Choice
8.1 Measuring Voting Power: Does My Vote Count?
8.2 Voting Systems: How Do We Choose a Winner?
8.3 Fair Division: What Is a Fair Share?
8.4 Apportionment: Am I Represented?

9 Geometry
9.1 Perimeter, Area, and Volume: How Do I Measure?
9.2 Proportionality and Similarity: Changing the Scale
9.3 Symmetries and Tilings: Form and Patterns