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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Knowlton, Todd
Math for fi nancial literacy / by Todd Knowlton, Paul Gray Jr.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60525-786-0
1. Financial literacy--Study and teaching (Secondary) 2. Finance,
Personal--Mathematics. 3. Teenagers--Finance, Personal. I. Gray, Paul
Douglas. II. Title.
HG179.K5793 2013
332.02400835--dc23
2012008678
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