xxxvi Applications Index conversion of, 125, 148, 280, 293 cooling time of a pizza, 364 cricket chirps and, 178, 372–373 heat transfer, 501 in Kansas City, Missouri, 213 monthly temperature, 460–461 Newton’s Law of Cooling, 359–360, 364 Newton’s Law of Heating, 364 sequence of temperatures as air cools, 874 of a skillet, 378 warming time of a beer stein, 364 Tests and testing answers on multiple-choice test, 924 answers on true/false test, 923 intelligence tests, A86 Time catching a bus, 747 catching a train, 747 to double an investment, 350–351, 353 emptying a pool, A75 emptying oil tankers, A75 between explosions, 718 filling a tub, A75 to reach a goal, 352 to reach an investment goal, 354 to travel from an island to a town, 130 of a trip, 410, 425 to triple an investment, 353 Transportation. See also Air travel; Motor vehicles; Navigation de-icing salt, 492 time to travel, 130 Velocity of a ball, 967, 976 escape, 735 on the Moon, 967–968 Volume of a balloon, 279 of a cone, 280 of a cylinder, 280 of a football, 703 of a parallelepiped, 674 Weapons artillery, 492 Weather. See also Meteorology hurricanes, 155, 212, 460 lightning strikes, 715–716, 718 temperature, in Kansas City, Missouri, 213 tornadoes, 154 wind chill, 110–111 Work computing, 656–657, 658, 678 constant rate jobs, 851 working together to do a job, A71–72, A74 of a glider, 594 linear, 390–391, 394 of Moon, 394 of a plane, A76 of a sailboat, 626 of Sun, 395 of a swimmer, 678 of a truck, 555 Sports baseball diamond, 18–19 forming teams, 924 game outcomes, 937 Green Monster, 748 home plate, 581 homeruns, 156 Little League, 18, 19, 395, 575, 576 MLB field, 575 World Series, 924 Wrigley Field, 576 basketball forming teams, 924 foul shots, 83 free-throw shots, 83–84, 557 cycling biathlon, A75 pedal revolutions, 396 speed of riders, A75 football forming teams, 924 speed of running, A75 stadium, 874 stadium seating revenue, 886 golf bunkers, 492 distance to the green, 574 motion of a golf ball, 84 successful putts, 373 MLB competitive balance tax, 147 Olympics racers, A75 pickleball, A74 playing field, 169 pool, calculating shots, 558 running races, A75 biathlon, A75 choosing a team, 937 long-distance race, 826 Olympic races, A75 one-mile race, 829 shot putting, height of a ball, 178 soccer, angles in, 575 swimming, speed and direction of a swimmer, 678 tennis, 213, 257 court dimensions, A74 Surveys of appliance purchases, 915 of stock portfolios, 915 Temperature average monthly temperature, 441, 467 body temperature, A13 Population bacterial, of E. coli, 98, 378–379 of fruit flies, 361–362 of insects, population growth of, 363, 365 population model, 246 of predators, 425 of a rabbit colony, 867 of trout, 866 Probability birthday problem, 931, 935, 937 of choosing a particular ball, 256 of drawing a flush, 934 exponential, 310, 324–325 of Girl Scout cookie selection, 934 of jury duty, 934 of making online purchases, 934 of number of people waiting in line, 934 of pet ownership, 934 Poisson, 310–311 of shared birthdays, 365 of unemployment, 937 of winning the lottery, 935 of YouTube usage, 934 Pyrotechnics fireworks display, 718 Real estate area of lot, 581 cost, of a triangular lot, 581 housing prices, 268, 352 mortgages, 867 fees, 110 interest rates on, 353 payments, 864 sales commission, A86 valuing a house, 1, 59 Security security camera, 555 Seismology calibrating instruments, 751 magnitude of an earthquake, 325 Sequences. See also Combinatorics Fibonacci, 867 of temperatures as air cools, 874 triangular numbers, 868 Society marriage problem, 326 Speed angular, 391, 467 average, computing, A76 cable cars of San Francisco, 395 of a car, 394 of current of Aguarico River, 851 of a river, 395 of a stream, 767 of cyclists, A75 of Earth, 394
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