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Online notes for Math 15, Math for Liberal Arts taught in the Fall 2016 semester at Laney College by Prof. Hubbard.

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Notes for Homework 4, due Monday July 3


Notes on decibels and bels (measuring sound) and the Richter scale (measuring earthquakes)

Notes on square roots, approximate and simplified, also Pythagorean Theorem problems

Notes on rates at different scales, notably death rates per 100,000 people

 
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