many publishers will have printing errors on a first or second edition, and sometimes will give cash rewards for notification.

Oh yes. My math book this year (I'm in high school) had quite a few mistakes... Not only typos, but some actual computation errors.

Of course. They're only human after all. However, such mistakes are usually corrected by the third edition, provided that they use the same basic exercises.

Of course it can have the wrong answers! I've discoveed that so many times it's like a daily routine to me. Remember nothing is perfect and everyone has to have a mark on their pernament record!!!

Of course they have errors thats all i gotta say

Yes everything has typos

Yes, I think in almost all my math books that have had answers at the back, there have been a few mistakes in each.

I remember my math textbook from highschool that had detailed answers in the back. Unfortunately, the answers were for another edition. Yes, a published math book can have wrong answers.

Yes, when my teacher calls out answers from the text book, the answers are like wrong once a week. Everyone goes crazy. They yell NO IT ISN'T. It's actually really funny!

YES! I was working in Maths and I couldn't figure out the answer. I asked my teacher and Even she managed to prove that the book was wrong!

Of course.

HEk yea my math text booklast year had so many mistakes that my teacher missed and students caught it was pretty funny. History textbooks also state facts out of order or completly get them wrong... or have alotof important information missing from it

yes no ones pefect

Any book, no matter how authoritative, can have wrong information. This is something that is rarely taught, but becomes very important later in life. Whenever you receive information, you should always question the source. In our society, it has become habit for people to accept assertions that are presented as fact, especially when presented by an expert, authority, or authoritative source. If we are critical thinkers, however, we will always question the source and take that into consideration. Today, there are some sources available to us for which we must never accept information at face value. For example, wikipedia is an online encyclopedia written by everyone--literally, anyone who wants to edit an entry on wikipedia is free to do so. I myself have contributed to entries there. In the past, encyclopedias were assumed to contain valid information, and citing an encyclopedia as a source freed you from responsibility for the information. Wikipedia turns this model of information citation on its head--wikipedia places the onus upon the readers to be skeptical and take responsibility for information presented therein, and even encourages readers to change entries they think are incorrect. In a way, this new model promoted by wikipedia is not really different from old encyclopedias--it simply recognizes the fact that information is as fluid as the people who discover and record it, and therefore just as fallible.

I had a hard time answering questions in my book about Options due to errors. Some of the time I had to look at the answers and then work out what the question was supposed to be.

Oh yea! I have seen a couple!