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The complete how to figure it

Darrell Huff · 1996

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"When should I roll over my mortgage?" "How much paint will it take to redo the house?" "How can I improve my first-serve percentage in tennis?" The math anxious and math avoiders among us can't even balance our checkbooks, but modern life regularly confronts us with puzzling calculations. Now Darrell Huff, best-selling author of the classic How to Lie with Statistics, offers easy-to-follow solutions (with and without a pocket calculator) to the thousand and one calculations we need to make day by day, from budgeting current expenses to planning for retirement, from purchasing a home to travel, sports, and entertainment.

First sentence: WHICH is worth more, a $5,000 cash gift today or a guaranteed $15,000 twenty years from now?

Book details

Year
1996
Language
English
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Editions
3
Pages
470
ISBN
9780393319248

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