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Quick Algebra Review

A Self-Teaching Guide
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Quick Algebra Review is a practical, streamlined guide designed to sharpen your algebra skills efficiently. It covers key topics such as positive and negative numbers, fractions, rational numbers, factoring, linear and quadratic equations, and word problems. Each chapter starts with a helpful chart to identify your weak areas, allowing for focused study without revisiting familiar material. Updated with relevant examples and hundreds of questions and quizzes, this book supports steady progress and confidence in algebra.
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The fastest, easiest way to brush up on your algebra! Quick Algebra Review

Need to hone your algebra skills? This bestselling review course in intermediate algebra gives you all the concepts, procedures, and problem-solving methods you need to succeed.

Each chapter begins with an easy-to-use chart that zeroes in on your problem areas. Now you can avoid wasting hours rehashing familiar concepts.

Every key algebraic concept is covered thoroughlyβ€”including positive and negative numbers, fractions, rational numbers, factoring, linear equations, quadratic equations, and word problems.

Hundreds of questions, answers, review problems, and quizzes help you to test your progress every step of the way.

Now updated and revised to be even more relevant and accessible than ever, Quick Algebra Review is packed with practical examples drawn from real-life situations.

Cover Design: Donald Munson

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780471578437

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 March 1993

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 179.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 240

About the Author

PETER H. SELBY is the author of two other Wiley Self-TeachingGuides: Practical Algebra and Geometry and Trigonometry forCalculus, both revised by STEVE SLAVIN, PhD, who is AssociateProfessor of Economics at Union County College, Cranford, NewJersey. Dr. Slavin is also the author of All the Math You'll EverNeed: A Self-Teaching Guide and Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide,both available from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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