An authentic and comprehensive text-book on BASICS IN STATISTICS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING covering the entire syllabus. Written in a lucid style and simple language with a view to familiarize the students with the basic statistical and quantitative techniques used to analyze the information for decision maker with emphasis to business situations. Comprehensive step by step explanation for easier understanding of all the topics. Incorporates a variety of illustrations and examples in each chapter for thorough understanding. Numerous solved examples in each chapter. Each chapter contains exercise with hints to understand the problem thoroughly. It covers the whole syllabus. Answers to all the problems in exercise are given with hints immediately after the exercise.