Together with Brooks/Cole, we are in the process of eliminating typos and errors from subsequent printings of the series. In the meantime, we hope that this listing of corrections to the first printing will be helpful to instructors and students using the text.
p. 56, Halfway down the page
The formula for the slope of the regression line is wrongly printed, as shown in the following graphic:
The authors are grateful to Lucy Mazany for spotting this error.
p. 112, Exercise 10
Change "195 tons" to "36 tons" as shown in the following graphic:
The authors are grateful to Jim Richman for spotting this error.
p. 204, Figure 23
The wrong figure is printed. Here is the correct figure:
p. 231, Third simplex tableau
The rightmost entry of the last row should be 50 and not 0.
p. 546, First line.
Replace "new members who join the club in a month" by "members in the club" as shown in the following graphic:
p. 609, Midway down the page.
Replace "0.001" in the denominator by "0.0001" as shown in the following graphic:
p. 620, Instructions for Exercises 17-22, part (b).
Delete the phrase "use the answer to part (a) to" as shown in the following graphic:
p. 652, Top left of the page.
In the discussion before Exercise 45, insert the phrase "in billions of dollars" as shown in red in the following graphic:
The authors are grateful to Judy Jones for spotting this error.
p. 806, End of Example 1
In the second displayed formula, replace $9.94 by $9.40 as shown in the following graphic:
p. A63, Answers to 11.6 Exercises.
In answer to Exercise 45, change $2.45 to $2450 as shown in red in the following graphic:
The authors are grateful to Judy Jones for spotting this error.
Last Updated: April, 2002