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HP 48gII User Manual

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Next, press the down arrow key (

˜) to trigger the clear editing cursor

highlighting the 3 in the denominator of

π

2

/3. Press the left arrow key (

š)

once to highlight the exponent 2 in the expression

π

2

/3. Next, press the

delete key (

ƒ) once to change the cursor into the insertion cursor. Press

ƒ once more to delete the 2, and then 5 to enter a 5. Press the upper
arrow key (

—) three times to highlight the expression π

5

/3. Then, type

‚¹ to apply the LN function to this expression. The screen now looks
like this:

Next, we’ll change the 5 within the parentheses to a ½ by using these
keystrokes:

šƒƒ1/2

Next, we highlight the entire expression in parentheses an insert the square
root symbol by using:

————R

Next, we’ll convert the 2 in front of the parentheses in the denominator into a
2/3 by using:

šƒƒ2/3

At this point the expression looks as follows:

The final step is to remove the 1/3 in the right-hand side of the expression.
This is accomplished by using:

—————™ƒƒƒƒƒ

The final version will be:

In summary, to edit an expression in the Equation Writer you should use the
arrow keys (

š™—˜) to highlight expression to which functions will be

applied (e.g., the LN and square root cases in the expression above). Use the

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