Basic Mathematics for College Students

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We want to express our gratitude to all those who helped with this project: Steve

Odrich, Mary Lou Wogan, Paul McCombs, Maria H. Andersen, Sheila Pisa, Laurie

McManus, Alexander Lee, Ed Kavanaugh, Karl Hunsicker, Cathy Gong, Dave Ryba,

Terry Damron, Marion Hammond, Lin Humphrey, Doug Keebaugh, Robin Carter,

Tanja Rinkel, Bob Billups, Jeff Cleveland, Jo Morrison, Sheila White, Jim McClain,

Paul Swatzel, Matt Stevenson, Carole Carney, Joyce Low, Rob Everest, David Casey,

Heddy Paek, Ralph Tippins, Mo Trad, Eagle Zhuang, and the Citrus College library

staff (including Barbara Rugeley) for their help with this project. Your

encouragement, suggestions, and insight have been invaluable to us.

We would also like to express our thanks to the Cengage Learning editorial,

marketing, production, and design staff for helping us craft this new edition: Charlie

Van Wagner, Danielle Derbenti,Gordon Lee, Rita Lombard, Greta Kleinert,

Stefanie Beeck, Jennifer Cordoba, Angela Kim, Maureen Ross, Heleny Wong,

Jennifer Risden, Vernon Boes, Diane Beasley, Carol O’Connell, and Graphic World.

Additionally, we would like to say that authoring a textbook is a tremendous

undertaking. A revision of this scale would not have been possible without the

thoughtful feedback and support from the following colleagues listed below. Their

contributions to this edition have shaped this revision in countless ways.

Alan S. Tussy

R. David Gustafson

Diane R. Koenig

Advisory Board

J. Donato Fortin,Johnson and Wales University

Geoff Hagopian,College of the Desert

Jane Wampler,Housatonic Community College

Mary Lou Wogan,Klamath Community College

Kevin Yokoyama,College of the Redwoods

Reviewers

Darla Aguilar,Pima Community College

Sheila Anderson,Housatonic Community College

David Behrman,Somerset Community College

Michael Branstetter,Hartnell College

Joseph A. Bruno, Jr.,Community College of Allegheny County

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