This accessible text is designed to help readers help themselves to excel. The content is organized into two parts: (1) A Library of Elementary Functions (Chapters 1-2) and (2) Finite Mathematics (Chapters 3-11). The book's overall approach, refined by the authors' experience with large sections of college freshmen, addresses the challenges of teaching and learning when readers' prerequisite knowledge varies greatly. Reader-friendly features such as Matched Problems, Explore & Discuss questions, and Conceptual Insights, together with the motivating and ample applications, make this text a popular choice for today's students and instructors.

Part 1 A Library of Elementary Functions
- Chapter 1 Linear Equations and Graphs
- Chapter 2 Functions and Graphs

Part 2 Finite Mathematics
- Chapter 3 Mathematics of Finance
- Chapter 4 Systems of Linear Equations; Matrices
- Chapter 5 Linear Inequalities and Linear Programming
- Chapter 6 Linear Programming : The Simplex Method
- Chapter 7 Logic, Sets, and Counting
- Chapter 8 Probability
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