Q SCI 190: Quantitative Analysis for Environmental Science

Reading and Homework Assignment Four: Weeks Seven and Eight

Read: Chapter 6 (1-4) and Chapter 7 (1-4)

Work the following problems from your text during weeks 7 and 8:

Exercise Set 6.1
Page 690, #5, 11, 19, 31, 35
Page 691, #39, 41, 43, 47
Page 692, #51, 53
Page 693, #55, 69, 73, 75

Exercise Set 6.2
Page 699, #3, 15, 23
Page 700, #27, 31, 37, 41
Page 701, #43, 49, 51, 57
Page 702, #61, 63, 71

Exercise Set 6.3
Page 711, #1, 15, 21, 29
Page 712, #39, 43, 53, 65, 77, 79, 83, 85
Page 713, #91, 103, 105, 109

Exercise Set 6.4
Page 722, #3
Page 723, #7, 21, 35, 45, 51
Page 724, #91, 95


Application Exercises included in this Chapter:

Distance to a forest fire from two lookout towers, height of Leaning Tower of Pisa, length of telephone pole as a function of sun angle, height of redwood tree, distance of boat traveling on a given bearing from lighthouse, wing span of fighter jet, pace angle and stride for dinosaurs, find distance across a lake, find bearing to travel from one island to another, find distance from pitcher's mound to first base, polar coordinates for horse on a merry go round, find sailing angle in polar coordinates, find sailboat speed traveling at given angle to the wind


Exercise Set 7.1
Page 786, #3, 9, 21, 35, 43
Page 787, #47, 53, 55, 57, 65
Page 788, #73, 77
Page 787, #79, 81
Page 788, #83, 87, 89
Page 791, #99, 105, 107, 113

Exercise Set 7.2
Page 797, #3, 7, 21, 23
Page 798, #27, 31,33
Page 799, #35, 39, 45, 49
Page 800, #55

Exercise Set 7.3
Page 809, #5, 13
Page 810, #37, 43, 53, 61
Page 811, #67

Exercise Set 7.4
Page 819, #7, 25, 35, 45, 47, 55
Page 820, #61, 63, 65
Page 821, #71, 73, 77, 81


Application Exercises included in this Chapter:

Blending two wines, blending gold of differing karats, average velocity of canoe and current, breakeven point for canoe manufacture, demand and supply for low-skilled wage earners, marital status of US adults, symptoms of illness for procrastinating students, living arrangements of US adults, collection of Halloween candy of different types, mixture of hotel rooms with and without kitchens, average velocity between Seattle and Miami in both directions, thrown ball's height over time, annual spending patterns per person in US, identifying price of each grocery item given the total price of the purchase, amount of funds invested that earn two diferent rates of interest, African life spans with and without AIDS, intersection of a comet and a planet, calculating the area of a floor plan, changing pattern of work in the USA


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