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Texas Instruments TI-84 User Manual

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Chapter 17: Activities

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To save keystrokes, you can recall the last expression you entered, and then edit it for a
new calculation.

2.

Press

1

to select

1:

4

Frac

from the

MATH

menu.

When you press

1

,

Ans

4

Frac

is displayed

on the home screen.

Ans

is a variable

that contains the last calculated answer.

3.

Press

Í to convert the result to a

fraction.

4.

Press

y [ (above Í) to recall

the fraction conversion entry, and then
press

y [ again to recall the

quadratic-formula expression,

b

b

2

4ac

+

2a

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