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Getting Started: Financing a Car ................................................................................................ 252
Getting Started: Computing Compound Interest ...................................................................... 253
Using the TVM Solver ................................................................................................................. 253
Using the Financial Functions ..................................................................................................... 254
Calculating Time Value of Money (TVM) ................................................................................... 255
Calculating Cash Flows ................................................................................................................ 257
Calculating Amortization ............................................................................................................ 258
Calculating Interest Conversion .................................................................................................. 261
Finding Days between Dates/Defining Payment Method ......................................................... 261
Using the TVM Variables ............................................................................................................. 262
The EasyData™ Application ........................................................................................................ 263
Chapter 15:
CATALOG, Strings, Hyperbolic Functions ............................................................ 266
Browsing the TI-84 Plus CATALOG .............................................................................................. 266
Entering and Using Strings ......................................................................................................... 267
Storing Strings to String Variables .............................................................................................. 268
String Functions and Instructions in the CATALOG ................................................................... 269
Hyperbolic Functions in the CATALOG ....................................................................................... 273
Chapter 16:
Programming ........................................................................................................ 275
Getting Started: Volume of a Cylinder ....................................................................................... 275
Creating and Deleting Programs ................................................................................................ 276
Entering Command Lines and Executing Programs ................................................................... 278
Editing Programs ......................................................................................................................... 279
Copying and Renaming Programs .............................................................................................. 280
PRGM CTL (Control) Instructions ................................................................................................. 281
PRGM I/O (Input/Output) Instructions ........................................................................................ 288
Calling Other Programs as Subroutines ...................................................................................... 293
Running an Assembly Language Program ................................................................................. 294
Chapter 17:
Activities ............................................................................................................... 296
The Quadratic Formula ............................................................................................................... 296
Box with Lid ................................................................................................................................. 299
Comparing Test Results Using Box Plots ..................................................................................... 306
Graphing Piecewise Functions .................................................................................................... 308
Graphing Inequalities .................................................................................................................. 309
Solving a System of Nonlinear Equations ................................................................................... 310
Using a Program to Create the Sierpinski Triangle .................................................................... 311
Graphing Cobweb Attractors ...................................................................................................... 312
Using a Program to Guess the Coefficients ................................................................................ 313
Graphing the Unit Circle and Trigonometric Curves ................................................................. 315
Finding the Area between Curves .............................................................................................. 316
Using Parametric Equations: Ferris Wheel Problem .................................................................. 317
Demonstrating the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus ............................................................ 319
Computing Areas of Regular N-Sided Polygons ........................................................................ 321
Computing and Graphing Mortgage Payments ........................................................................ 323
Chapter 18:
Memory and Variable Management .................................................................... 326
Checking Available Memory ....................................................................................................... 326
Deleting Items from Memory .....................................................................................................329
Clearing Entries and List Elements .............................................................................................329
Archiving and UnArchiving Variables ......................................................................................... 330