xxxiv Applications Index Home improvement. See also Construction landscaping, 185 painting a house, 768 vent pipe installation, 703 Investment(s) bonds, zero-coupon, 353 comparing alternatives, 353 diversification, 768 IRAs, 353 return on, 846 on business purchased, 352 on stock, 352 in stock beta and, 138, 188 portfolios, 915, 916 prices, 885 return on, 352 stocks on NASDAQ, 923 stocks on NYSE, 923 time to double or triple, 353 time to reach an investment goal, 354 Landscaping enclosing a garden, A74 height of a tree, 567 planting trees, 782 watering a lawn, 393 Law and law enforcement number of violent and property crimes, 76 Leisure and recreation amusement park rides, 394 bungee jumping, 265 cable TV, 130 Ferris wheels, 54, 394, 441, 501, 569, 591 roller coaster motion, 461 video games, grade-point average and, 155 Measurement Celsius and Fahrenheit scales, 125 intelligence tests, A86 length of a line segment, 15 optical, 510 rainfall measurement, 658 temperature measurement, 46 Media YouTube usage, 934 Medicine. See also Health breast cancer, 371 drug concentration, 256–257, 310, 325 lithotripsy, 703–704 pancreatic cancer, 310 wound healing, 310, 324 Meteorology. See also Weather computing wind speed, 767 height of a cloud, 551 rainfall measurement, 658 cubes length of, 228 surface area of, A13 volume of, A13 cylinders inscribing in a cone, 130 inscribing in a sphere, 130 volume of, 280 Descartes’ method of equal roots, 829 dodecagon, 523 Extended Principle of Mathematical Induction, 897 lines, equation of, 794 octagons, 532–533 parallelepipeds, volume of, 674 polygons, area of, 794 quadrilateral area, 581 rectangles area of, 75, 127, 135, 185, 534, A12 formulas for length and width of, 830 perimeter of, 129, 828, A12 scylinders, volume of, 280 segments, area of, 581 shaded regions, area of, 581 slope, 46 spheres, 668 inscribing a cylinder in, 130 surface area of, A13 volume of, A13 squares ara of, 129, A73 length of sides, 828, 829 perimeter of, 129, A73 surface area of a balloon, 279 tetrahedrons, volume of, 794 triangles area of, 75, 129, 533, 580, 582, 794, A12 ASA, 580 circumscribing, 569 equilateral, 18, 129, A12, A13 isosceles, 18, 75, 533, 828, 830 Law of Tangents, 569 medians of, 18 Mollweide’s Formula, 569 perfect, 582 perimeter of, A13 right, 554, 594 Government federal debt, 353 income tax, 76, 109–110, 147, 280, 293, A86 Health. See also Medicine age vs. total cholesterol, 373 blood pressure, 441, 501 body temperature, A13 counting calories, A86 Devine Formula, 293 income spent on health care, 76 lung volume, 426 maternal age vs. Down syndrome, 155 spread of a disease, 379 saving (continued) retirement, 885, 907 savings plans, 352 sinking fund, 885 for spring break, 863–864 Food and nutrition blending coffee, 839, 850, A69, A74 blending teas, A74 candy, 154 cookie orders, 850–851 cooling time of a pizza, 364 cost of fast food, 767 cupcake catering, 109 fat content, A86 fruit smoothie, 783 Girl Scout cookies, 934 mixed nuts, 766, 839, 851, A74 mixing candy, A74 number of servings, 768, 782 wine and price, 343–344 Forensics height estimation, 326 identifying remains, 575 Forestry tree height, 411 wood products, 362–363 Games Five Card Stud, 934 grains of wheat on a chess board, 885 lottery, 910, 935, 938–939 number game, A13 video games, grade-point average and, 155 Geography Bermuda Triangle, A21 grade of a mountain trail, 594, 830 inclination of a mountain trail, 550–551 length of a mountain trail, 556 speed of current of Aguarico River, 851 Geology earthquakes, 325 Old Faithful, 874 Geometry angles between two lines, 523 value of, 557 circles area of, 129, A73 area of a segment, 594 chord of, 576 circumference of, 129, 828, A12, A73 equation of, 48–49, 52, 794 inscribed, 582 radius, 829 collinear points, 794 cones inscribing a cylinder in, 130 volume of, 280
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