Mathematics Foundations: 5000 Percentage Tips and Exercises to Satisfy all your Business Arithmetic Needs

The simple fact that most human beings have ten toes and ten fingers has led to our decimal number system.
And this, in turn, has led to the wide acceptance and usage of powers of ten in our daily life.
The number 100 occupies a special place in everything we do: many tests are graded out of 100, and the entire percentage concept hinges on the expression of any number as a fraction of the number 100.
Indeed, the whole of commercial and business arithmetic requires the percentage concept to help us navigate through daily life. From reductions on the marked value of goods to soaring stock indices expressed as a percentage of their base index earlier that day to compound and simple interest, the world of money has a very close relationship with the world of percentages.
In this book, you will learn a lot about the basic mathematics behind this ubiquitous concept, and will come to appreciate just how simple it can be to make the calculations that open up a world of math literacy, and remove any residual anxiety you might feel when you have to use arithmetic in daily life.
This book is packed with theory, with solved examples, and with practice problems to take you from a percentage novice to someone who can teach a business mathematics course with complete confidence. Let's go!