Basic Mathematics for College Students

582 Chapter 6 Percent THE UNITED NATIONS In 2008, the U.N. Security Council voted to increase the size of a peacekeeping force ...

Chapter 6 Summary and Review 583 To find 50% of a number,divide the number by 2. Estimate the answer: What is 50% of 1,442,957? ...

584 Chapter 6 Percent What is 1% of the given number? Find the exact answer and an estimate using front-end rounding. 342.03 62 ...

Chapter 6 Summary and Review 585 When using the formula , the time must be expressed in years.If the time is given in days or mo ...

586 Chapter 6 Percent Interest earned in the second half of the year: This is the simple interest formula. Write the rate ras a ...

Chapter 6 Summary and Review 587 INVESTMENTS Find the simple interest earned on $6,000 invested at 8% for 2 years. Use the foll ...

CHAPTER 6 TEST Fill in the blanks. a. means parts per one hundred. b. The key words in a percent sentence translate as follows: ...

WAIST 33 INSEAM 34 Expect shrinkage of approximately 3% in length after the jeans are washed. 65 is what percent of 1,000? What ...

AUTO CARE Refer to the advertisement below. Find the discount, the sale price, and the discount rate on the car waxing kit. TOW ...

Write 6,054,346[Section 1.1] a. in words b. in expanded notation WEATHER The tables below shows the average number of cloudy ...

16% of what number is 20?[Section 6.2] GENEALOGY Through an extensive computer search, a genealogist determined that worldwide, ...

593 Graphs and Statistics 7.1Reading Graphs and Tables 7.2Mean, Median, and Mode CHAPTER and Review Chapter Test Cumulative Revi ...

594 Chapter 7 Graphs and Statistics SECTION 7.1 Reading Graphs and Tables Objectives 1 Read tables. 2 Read bar graphs. 3 Read pi ...

7.1 Reading Graphs and Tables 595 EXAMPLE (^1) Postal Rates Refer to the table of priority mail postal rates (from 2009) below. ...

To compare sets of related data, groups of two (or three) bars can be shown. For double-baror triple-bar graphs,a keyis used to ...

Read pictographs. A pictographis like a bar graph, but the bars are made from pictures or symbols. A keytells the meaning (or va ...

Caution! One drawback of a pictograph is that it can be difficult to determine what fractional amount is represented by a portio ...

Read line graphs. Another type of graph, called a line graph,is used to show how quantities change with time. From such a graph, ...

Two quantities that are changing with time can be compared by drawing both lines on the same graph. 600 Chapter 7 Graphs and Sta ...

Read histograms and frequency polygons. A company that makes vitamins is sponsoring a program on a cable TV channel. The marketi ...