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Old August 19th, 2009, 05:37 PM
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I decided to do all the math problems in a recent issued math book, make a solutions manual for all the even answers with full explanations (assuming all answers are right and since a lot of books have the solutions manuals for the odd problems), and give it out for free to the masses?
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I decided to do all the math problems in a recent issued math book, make a solutions manual for all the even answers with full explanations (assuming all answers are right and since a lot of books have the solutions manuals for the odd problems), and give it out for free to the masses?
I think if the material quoted from the original book constituted no more than 5% (or is that 10% ?) of that book you should be OK.

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I think if the material quoted from the original book constituted no more than 5% (or is that 10% ?) of that book you should be OK.

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And I'm sure that could be arranged. The only things requiring quoting are the title of the textbook and the question numbers (the questions themselves do not require quoting).
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