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APPLICATION INDEX
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Income tax, 181–182
Infectious diseases, 347
Insecticides, 351
Insurance company data, 555–556
Internet access, 371–372
Inventory value, 468–469
Investment, 441
Investment allocation, 480–481
Labor costs, 464–465, 468, 500–501
Learning curve, 344–345
Learning theory, 315
Licensed drivers, 156
Life science, 55
Linear depreciation, 159
Loan repayment, 567
Logistic growth, 345–346
Manufacturing, 103, 174, 277, 287–288, 325, 572
Marine biology, 352, 378, 382
Market analysis, 558, 567–568
Market research, 234, 256
Markup policy, 156, 250, 256, 468
Marriage, 277
Maximizing revenue, 222, 277
Maximum area, 210–211
Medical research, 378
Medicare, 382
Medicinal lithotripsy, 401
Medicine, 352, 382
Mixing antifreeze, 150
Mixture problems, 52–53, 150
Money growth, 339, 382
Movie industry revenue, 220
Music, 56, 321, 531
Naval architecture, 404–405
Navigation, 95, 412–414
Newton’s law of cooling, 352, 378
Nuclear power, 353, 417–418
Numbers, 107, 576
Nutrition, 456, 469
Oceanography, 146–147
Officer selection, 537
Olympic games, 157
Ozone levels, 113
Packaging, 31, 298
Parachutes, 156
Pendulum, 21
Petty crime, 455
Photography, 321, 352, 378, 531
Physics, 122, 146, 320–321, 326, 510, 530, 576, 580
Physiology, 314–315
Player ranking, 470
Political science, 572
Politics, 107, 469
Pollution, 234
Population growth, 340–341, 351–352, 378, 381,
530, 579
Present value, 339, 382
Price and demand, 93, 95, 121, 249–250, 256, 576–577
Price and supply, 121, 250
Prize money, 524
Production costs, 202, 468
Production rates, 440
Production scheduling, 436–437, 440–441, 456, 462, 486
Profit analysis, 213–214, 220, 221–222, 230–231
Profit and loss analysis, 213–214, 576
Projectile flight, 220
Projectile motion, 211, 594–595, 596
Psychology, 56, 64, 321
Purchasing, 452–453, 572
Puzzle, 501, 530–531
Quality control, 568
Quantity-rate-time problems, 51–52
Radioactive decay, 342–343
Radioactive tracers, 351
Rate of descent, 156
Rate problems, 174
Rate-time, 576
Rate-time problems, 55–56, 107, 439
Regression, 346
Relativistic mass, 21
Replacement time, 315
Resource allocation, 456, 486, 500
Retention, 315
Revenue, 242–243, 277
Revenue analysis, 496
Rocket flight, 368–369
Safety research, 203
Salary increment, 510
Sales and commissions, 187, 460–461
Serial numbers, 540–541
Service charges, 187
Shipping, 288, 576, 579
Signal light, 394
Significant digits, 74
Simple interest, 326
Smoking statistics, 155
Sociology, 456
Sound, 365–366, 371, 382, 579
Space science, 321, 352, 394, 418, 421
Space vehicles, 371
Speed of sound, 155
Sports, 131–132
Sports medicine, 107, 160
State income tax, 187, 257
Statistics, 74
Stopping distance, 214–215, 221, 250, 256, 576
Storage, 298
Subcommittee selection, 539
Supply and demand, 157, 435–436, 440