This book, modern in its writing style as well as in its applications, contains numerous exercises—both skill oriented and applications—, real data problems, and a problem solving method. The book features exercises based on data form the World Wide Web, technology options for those who wish to use a graphing calculator, review boxes, strategic checkpoints, interactive activities, section summaries and projects, and chapter openers and reviews. For anyone who wants to see and understand how mathematics are used in everyday life.H2Audience/H2PIn preparing to write this text, we talked with many of our colleagues who teach a finite math course to find out if they experienced the same difficulties in teaching this course. What we learned is that while there is very little similarity in the topics covered or in how much time is spent on each area, there is remarkable uniformity in the needs of students who enroll in these diverse courses. Professors at Community Colleges, Universities, and Liberal Arts Colleges all told us that their students are generally unmotivated, unsure of their algebra skills, and uncomfortable with translating English into mathematics and knowing how to set up problems for solution. Armed with this knowledge, we set out to write a new Finite Math text that would address these fundamental needs./PPAs with other Finite Mathematics textbooks, our text may be used in either a one or two term course for students majoring in economics, business, social, or behavioral sciences. We have organized the topics for maximum flexibility so that the text may be adapted to any college or university’s curriculum. However, that is where the similarity ends. We have crafted this book around six key principles designed to address student’s needs:/PULLIPresent the mathematics in language that students can read and understand/LILITeach good problem solving techniques and provide ample practice/LILIUse real data applications to kee?Ð