Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers, 8th edition
Robert Brechner and George Bergeman
Guide to No-Cost Ancillaries
A variety of supplements are available to support both students and instructors. Here is a brief
description of these tools.
Supplemental Tools for Students
Jump Start Solutions provide worked-out solutions to the first question in each new topic set in the
section exercises. Icons in the text indicate which solutions are available.
Excel® Templates corresponding to problems in the text are presented at three levels of difficulty. Icons
in the text indicate which exercises are accompanied by these templates.
Problems in this level introduce students to spreadsheets and let them see how they can
be used to perform calculations and present information.
Students will be asked to identify the relevant data in the problems and enter it as
An Excel Guide and Workbook offers instruction covering basic spreadsheet procedures.
A Financial Calculator Guide and Workbook provides keystroke-by-keystroke instruction on using a
business calculator.
A bonus Chapter 22, Business Measurements and Currency Conversion provides instruction on working
with both the U.S. Customary System and the Metric system. It also provides additional information
regarding conversion between U.S. and foreign currencies.
BizMath Tutorials are narrated PowerPoints® that focus on core topics in business math. They utilize
Supplemental Tools for Instructors
Available on the text website….
Note: Access the following tools by using your Single Sign-On (SSO) account or by contacting
Power Point Slides for electronic classroom presentation contain solutions to all Section Review
Exercises and selected tables, charts, and other relevant graphics from the chapters.
The End-of-Section Exercise Solutions from the Annotated Instructor’s Edition are in PDF form. You
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The Cognero Electronic Test Bank allows instructors to select problems at random, by level of difficulty,
or by type of problem. Instructors can customize or add test questions and create multiple versions of
the same test.
Additional support for Students and Instructors
CengageNOW™
Note: Contact your Cengage sales representative and see the preface of the Annotated Instructor’s
Edition for information on the tools described below.
• Auto-graded homework and tests are easily constructed by instructors choosing from algorithmic
problems based on the even-numbered end-of-section exercises, algorithmic problems based on
Also, please note that support in Aplia is available. Please contact your Cengage sales representative for
more information.