Acknowledgements Attributions
This textbook is adapted from Math in Society, edited by David Lippman, Pierce College Ft Steilacoom, with some sections containing slightly modified content from The Normal Distribution by Karen Walters, CK-12 Foundation, found at Lumen Learning. One setion is derived from Modeling Using Variation in College Algebra by Jay Abramson at Openstax.
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Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Section 4.1, Section 4.2, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, and Chapter 12 are adapted from, Math in Society on OpenTextBookStore by David Lippman, licensed under a CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States. Changes made to the orginal work include:
Dividing counting and probability concepts into two separate chapters that can be taught independently.
Adding amortization Schedules to Chapter 5.
Adding an alternate method of completing truth tables to Chapter 3.
Removing logarithms and logistic growth from Chapter 4.
Adding problems to exercise sets.
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Section 4.3 is adapted from College Algebra: 5.8 Modeling Using Variation by Jay Abramson, OpenStax, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Changes made to the orginal work include:
Removing joint variation.
Adding problems to exercise sets.
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Chapter 10 is adapted from "The Normal Distribution" by Karen Walters, CK-12 Foundation is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 found at "Mathematics for the Liberal Arts" by Lumen Learning Changes made to the orginal work include:
Reformatting probabilities as decimals.
Adding problems to exercise sets.
Learning objectives were added to all sections. Images either came directly from OER sources or were created at RRCC.