Calculator Tricks

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Calculator Tricks

• Magic Buttons for the TI-30Xa

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Exponents

• 75
• Cubed 83
• 6.2 x 106

• Evaluate the following
• Find 2 cubed
• 55
• 1.09 x 104

8
3,125
10,900
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Squares

• Squared
• 52
• A s2 (area of a square)

• Find the following
• 12 squared
• Area of a square with sides of 4 in
• 162

144
16 in2
256
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Square Roots
25 Square root of 9

• Find the following square roots
• 196
• 400
• sq rt of 132

14
Which are perfect squares?
20
11.49
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Pi

• Pi
• é
• 3.14 or 22/7

What is pi? é
3.141592654