The Numbers you need / [print]
Nigel J. Hopkins, John W. Mayne, John R. Hudson, [editors.
- Detroit : Gale Research Incorporated, (c)1992.
- xii, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Consuming passion -- What your credit cards cost you -- Cost of buying a new car -- Percentages; markdowns, markups, taxes, and tips -- Exchanging currencies -- Understanding the consumer price index -- Your money or your life -- Reading the financial pages -- Annual equivalent interest rate on bonds and treasury bills -- Monthly payments on your short term mortgage -- Your monthly mortgage payments and mortgage "points" -- Benefits from your individual retirement account (IRA) -- How much life insurance do you need? -- Bank on it -- Interest on a single deposit in your savings account -- Single deposit you need to reach a future goal -- Interest on monthly deposits in your savings account -- Monthly deposits you need to reach a goal -- Present value of a series of monthly payments -- Monthly income that you can draw from a capital sum -- Health and fitness by the numbers -- Life expectancy -- Life insurance costs for smokers and nonsmokers -- Blood pressure measurement -- Drinking and driving -- Cardiovascular fitness -- Exercise programs : how often? How hard? how long? -- Healthy body weight -- Diet and health -- Sun protection factors (SPF) -- 20/20 and 14/14 vision -- Spread of diseases such as AIDS -- Biorhythms: real and imaginary -- Social security numbers Weather and the environment -- Pressure and weather patterns -- Temperature scales -- Windchill factors -- Heat and humidity index -- Probability of precipitation -- Holes in the ozone layer -- Air pollution -- Water pollution -- Acid rain -- Waste disposal -- Electromagnetic fields -- Earthquakes -- Global warming -- Population growth -- Gambling, cards and games -- odds and probabilities -- Gambling in general -- Racetrack betting -- Lotteries -- Blackjack -- Rolling the dice -- Draw poker -- Roulette -- Bridge -- Billiards, snooker, and pool -- Sports -- scoring and statistics -- Golf -- Tennis -- Baseball -- Football -- Basketball -- Bowling -- Hockey -- Home, hobbies, and workshop numbers -- Kitchen calculations -- Fabric for your pattern -- Home office -- Wallpapering -- Painting -- Electrical power in the home -- Natural gas in the home -- Home heating -- Construction around the house -- Gardening -- Radio and television frequencies -- Camera settings -- Binoculars and telescopes -- Microscopes -- Car facts and figures Some popular-science calculations -- Satellite rotation periods -- Distances to the stars -- Difference between mass and weight -- Einstein's equation : E = MCp2s -- Time and calendars -- Radioactive decay -- Compass errors -- Tools you might need -- Using tables, functions, and graphs -- How to interpolate to find immediate values -- Working with decimals and rounding numbers -- Working with powers of numbers -- Using logarithms -- Algebra you might need -- Exponential function and its many uses -- Geometry you might need -- Trigonometry you might need -- Elements of probability theory -- Basic statistics, polls, and surveys -- Sequences and series -- Computer basics -- Getting the units of measurement right -- Units of measurement from A to Z -- Metric system -- logical units -- Conversions between units -- More about money -- Compound interest -- What present value means -- Effect of taxation -- Different compounding periods -- Effects of inflation on future buying power -- Mathematical basis for Tables 2.3-2.6 and 3.1-3.6.
Provides formulas, tables, statistics, definitions, and examples that make everyday calculations more accessible.