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For All Practical Purposes 7th edition

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COMAP, Inc. (The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications)
Publisher: W. H. Freeman

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Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: Urban Services
    • 1: Basic Concepts (10)
    • 1: Euler Circuits (3)
    • 1: Eulerization and Squeezing (12)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 2: Business Efficiency
    • 2: Hamiltonian Circuits (6)
    • 2: Counting Problems (5)
    • 2: Traveling Salesman Problems (4)
    • 2: Trees and Spanning Trees (6)
    • 2: Critical-Path Analysis (1)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 3: Planning and Scheduling
    • 3: Scheduling (2)
    • 3: Using the List-Processing Algorithm (7)
    • 3: Independent Tasks and Other Issues (4)
    • 3: Bin Packing (7)
    • 3: Coloring Problems and Conflict Resolution (5)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 4: Linear Programming
    • 4: Graphing (1)
    • 4: Resource-Constraint Inequalities (3)
    • 4: Graphing the Feasible Region (3)
    • 4: Finding Points in the Feasible Region (1)
    • 4: Graphing the Feasible Region (3)
    • 4: Linear Programming and Its Geometry (2)
    • 4: Mixture Problems and Linear Programming (10)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 5: Exploring Data: Distributions
    • 5: Exercise
    • 5: Displaying Distributions: Histograms (2)
    • 5: Displaying Distributions: Stemplots (1)
    • 5: Describing Center: Mean and Median (2)
    • 5: Quartiles, the Five-Number Summary, and Boxplots (5)
    • 5: Describing Spread: The Standard Deviation (2)
    • 5: Normal Distributions and the 68-95-99.7 Rule (5)
    • 5: Chapter Review (2)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 6: Exploring Data: Relationships
    • 6: Exercise
    • 6: Scatterplots (2)
    • 6: Regression Lines (3)
    • 6: Correlation (4)
    • 6: Least-Square Regression (4)
    • 6: Interpreting Correlation and Regression (4)
    • 6: Chapter Review (1)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 7: Data for Decisions
    • 7: Sampling (1)
    • 7: Bad Sampling Methods (1)
    • 7: Simple Random Samples (3)
    • 7: Cautions About Sample Surveys
    • 7: Experiments (1)
    • 7: Thinking About Experiments
    • 7: Inference: From Sample to Population (3)
    • 7: Confidence Intervals (4)
    • 7: Chapter Review
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 8: Probability: The Mathematics of Chance
    • 8: Probability Models and Rules (3)
    • 8: Discrete Probability Models (3)
    • 8: Equally Likely Outcomes (5)
    • 8: Continuous Probability Models (1)
    • 8: The Mean and Standard Deviation of a Probability Model (5)
    • 8: The Central Limit Theorem (4)
    • 8: Chapter Review (2)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 9: Voting and Social Choice
    • 9: Majority Rule and Condorcet's Method (1)
    • 9: Other Voting Systems for Three or More Candidates (16)
    • 9: Insurmountable Difficulties: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
    • 9: A Better Approach? Approval Voting (1)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 10: The Manipulability of Voting Systems
    • 10: Majority Rule and Condorcet's Method (1)
    • 10: Other Voting Systems for Three or More Candidates (2)
    • 10: Impossibility (1)
    • 10: The Chair's Paradox (1)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 11: Weighted Voting Systems
    • 11: How Weighted Voting Works (4)
    • 11: Shapley-Shubik Power Index (3)
    • 11: Banzhaf Power Index (7)
    • 11: Comparing Voting Systems (9)
    • Skills Check (7)

  • Chapter 12: Electing the President
    • 12: Spatial Models for Two-Candidate Elections (2)
    • 12: Spatial Models for Multicandidate Elections (3)
    • 12: Winnowing the Field (1)
    • 12: What Drives Candidates Out? (3)
    • 12: Election Reform: Approval Voting (1)
    • 12: The Electoral College
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 13: Fairness and Game Theory
    • 13: The Adjusted Winner Procedure (3)
    • 13: The Knaster Inheritance Procedure (5)
    • 13: Taking Turns (3)
    • 13: Divide-and-Choose (1)
    • 13: Cake-Division Procedures: Proportionality
    • 13: Cake-Division Procedures: The Problem of Envy
    • Skills Check (1)

  • Chapter 14: Apportionment Problem
    • 14: The Apportionment Problem (2)
    • 14: The Hamilton Method (6)
    • 14: Divisor Methods (10)
    • 14: Which Divisor Method Is Best? (5)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 15: Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition
    • 15: Total-Conflict Games (13)
    • 15: Partial-Conflict Games (3)
    • 15: Larger Games (2)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 16: The Digital Revolution
    • 16: Check Digits (18)
    • 16: Postnet Codes (3)
    • 16: Bar Codes
    • 16: Encoding Personal Data (4)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 17: Information Science
    • 17: Binary Codes (2)
    • 17: Parity-Check Sums (3)
    • 17: Data Compression (5)
    • 17: Cryptography (6)
    • 17: Encrypting Credit-Card Data on the Web (2)
    • 17: Web Searches and Mathematical Logic
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 18: On Size and Growth
    • 18: Geometric Similarity (3)
    • 18: How Much Is That in...? (4)
    • 18: Scaling Real Objects (3)
    • 18: Sorry, No King Kongs (7)
    • 18: Dimension Tension (4)
    • 18: How to Grow
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 19: Symmetry and Patterns
    • 19: Fibonacci Numbers (1)
    • 19: The Golden Ratio (3)
    • 19: Symmetries Preserve the Pattern (3)
    • 19: Rosette, Strip, and Wallpaper Patterns (3)
    • 19: Strip Patterns (1)
    • 19: Imperfect Patterns (6)
    • 19: Symmetry Groups (2)
    • 19: Fractal Patterns
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 20: Tilings
    • 20: Tilings with Regular Polygons (3)
    • 20: Tilings with Irregular Polygons
    • 20: Using Translations (1)
    • 20: Using Translations Plus Half-Turns (1)
    • 20: Nonperiodic Tilings (1)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 21: Your Money and Resources
    • 21: Geometric Growth and Compound Interest (5)
    • 21: A Limit to Compounding (3)
    • 21: A Model for Investment (5)
    • 21: Exponential Decay and the Consumer Price Index (6)
    • 21: Real Growth and Valuing Investments (4)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 22: Borrowing Models
    • 22: Simple Interest (4)
    • 22: Compound Interest (3)
    • 22: Conventional Loans (16)
    • 22: Annuities (2)
    • Skills Check

  • Chapter 23: The Economics of Resources
    • 23: Growth Models for Biological Populations
    • 23: How Long Can a Nonrenewable Resource Last?
    • 23: Sustaining Renewable Resources
    • 23: Mathematical Chaos
    • Skills Check

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Chapter 2: Business Efficiency
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Chapter 3: Planning and Scheduling
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Chapter 4: Linear Programming
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Chapter 5: Exploring Data: Distributions
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Chapter 6: Exploring Data: Relationships
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Chapter 7: Data for Decisions
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Chapter 8: Probability: The Mathematics of Chance
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Chapter 9: Voting and Social Choice
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Chapter 10: The Manipulability of Voting Systems
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Chapter 11: Weighted Voting Systems
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Chapter 12: Electing the President
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Chapter 13: Fairness and Game Theory
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Chapter 14: Apportionment Problem
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Chapter 15: Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition
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Chapter 16: The Digital Revolution
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Chapter 17: Information Science
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Chapter 18: On Size and Growth
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Chapter 19: Symmetry and Patterns
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Chapter 20: Tilings
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Chapter 21: Your Money and Resources
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Chapter 22: Borrowing Models
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Chapter 23: The Economics of Resources
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