The Handy Math Answer Book
Without math, how would romance survive? Where would we be without pluses and minuses? Without public opinion and box  office tallies? Without measuring cups, calorie counters, or computer technology? More than just a class you tried to avoid, math defines modern life. Around the home, business applications, even theoretical physics…. Everyone uses it, just do the math. Math is too complicated. Math is too hard. Not anymore.The Handy Math Answer Bookeliminates the instant headache and helps the many math-challenged among us better understand and enjoy the magic of numbers. You can count on it.From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments like the use of algebra by Mesopotamian mathematicians,The Handy Math Answer Bookaddresses more than 1,000 questions relating to mathematics.   Organized in sixteen chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format,Handy Mathprovides clear and concise explanations to paradoxes, theories, fundamentals of geometry, and other branches of mathematics, plus the numbers we see daily in statistics, financial and market reports, weather forecasts, real estate evaluations, games, and measurements of all kinds.Handy Math’s straightforward language is supported by more than 200 charts, graphs, illustrations, and photographs.