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TI-85/TI-86 Graphing Calculators

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The message that appears tells you to press

ENTER

to see the output.

The output is in the form [ t, v(t) ]. We see that v(85)

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$6945.

If you had wanted to generate a list of values, starting
at a value called

TblMin

and differing by

D

Tbl

, use the

AUTO

option in the program.

Press

ENTER

to re-run the program, choose 1 for

AUTO

, and

enter the values like those shown to the right.

Pressing

ENTER

and

allows you to see the outputs that

have been generated and their corresponding inputs.

(If you had evaluated several different functions, their
outputs appear in the same order (horizontally) as the
functions in the graphing list.)

TI-86

After entering the function v(t) in

y

1

, choose

the

TABLE SETUP

menu.

Press

TABLE

F2

(

TBLST

)

.

To generate a list of values beginning with 80 with
the table values differing by 1, enter 80 in the

TblStart

location, 1 in the

D

Tbl

location, and choose

AUTO

in the

Indpnt:

location.

Remember that you ÒchooseÓ a particular setting by
positioning the blinking cursor over that setting and

pressing

ENTER

.

Press

F1

(

TABLE

) , and observe the list of input and

output values. Notice that you can scroll through the
table with

,

,

, and/or

.

The table values may be rounded in the table display.
You can see more of the output by moving to the value
and looking at the bottom of the screen.

Return to the

TABLE SETUP

menu with

F1

(

TBLST

) .

(

TblSet

). To compute specific outputs rather than a list

of values, choose

ASK

in the

Indpnt:

location.

(When using

ASK

, the settings for

TblMin

and

D

Tbl

do

not matter.)