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Quick run-through: basic mode – Sharp EL-9900 User Manual

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Chapter 1: Getting Started

Here are the major ingredients for 18 doughnuts:

1
4

cup warm water

3
4

cup warm milk

1
3

cup sugar

4 cups all-purpose flour

2 eggs

3 tablespoons butter

Based on these values, solve the following problems using the calculator.

Question

If you make 60 doughnuts according to the above recipe,

how many cups of warm milk are required?

At first, you may calculate how many cups of warm milk are

required for 1 doughnut =

3
4

÷

18

As for the ordinary calculator, the answer is 0.041666666. But

how much is 0.04166666 of a cup of warm milk? The Basic mode

of this graphing calculator is initially set to the fraction answer

mode instead of the decimal answer mode. You may easily obtain

the answer in fraction.

Quick Run-through: Basic Mode

When you reverse the keyboard, the following settings are automatically changed.

Basic

Advanced

• Simplifying: Auto (Auto at SIMPLE in SETUP menu)

Advanced

Basic

• Coordinate system: Rectangular coordinates (Rect at COORD

in SETUP menu.)

• Answer mode: Displays a mixed number if ANSWER is set to

complex numbers.

• Angle unit: Set to Deg if DRG is set to Grad.

• Decimal format: Set to FloatPt if FSE is set to Eng.