Basic College Mathematics - What's New

Enhancements

• Terminology and explanations in both the textbook and software have been made more consistent.
  
  
• In Lesson 1.1 “Reading and Writing Whole Numbers”, clearer instruction and broader answer acceptance have been added for question types involving writing out the English word equivalent of a given number.
  
  
• Step-By-Step screens in Lesson 1.4 “Rounding and Estimating with Whole Numbers” have been restructured.
  
  
• Solution screens in Lesson 4.3 “Addition with Mixed Numbers” have been improved.
  
  
• In Lesson 5.5 “Decimals and Fractions”, the answer acceptance has been increased, and the Solution screens have been improved.
  
  
• A few question types in Lesson 6.2 “Proportions” have been reworked.
  
  
• Step-By-Step screens in Lesson 7.1 “Decimals and Percents” have been updated.
  
  
• Step-By-Step screens in Lesson 7.4 “Solving Percent Problems using P/100 = A/B” have been simplified.
  
  
• Step-By-Step screens in Lesson 7.6 “Applications with Percents: Commission, Profit, and Others” have been enhanced.
  
  
• In Lesson 9.1 “Introduction to Integers”, the look of number lines has been updated to more closely reflect the textbook, and Explain Errors have been improved.
  
  
• Hint Screens in Lesson II.2 “Estimating with Percent” have been updated.