This eBook will help you build the skills to solve everyday math problems and be confident on the job. Sharpen your real-world math skills with step-by-step guidance and real-world practice exercises.

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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

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Improve your skills in decimals by taking Decimals: Level 2, Practice Set 4. At the end of the practice set, get an instant score report that measures your understanding of concepts like converting between fractions and decimals.

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As a mathematician, philosopher, logician, historian, socialist, pacifist, and social critic, Bertrand Russell is noted for his "revolt against idealism" in Britain in the early 20th century, as well as his pacifist activism during WWI, a campaign against Adolf Hitler and later the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. In addition to his political activism, he is considered to be one of the founders of analytic philosophy, receiving the Nobel...