Re: 2 answer quadratics on TI-85?
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Ian <ianvf@GEOCITIES.COM> Stated:
> This has been bugging me for a while now. When ever I have a quadratic,
> and I run it through the solver, my calculator seems to randomly pick
> which answer it wants to give me. Is there any way I can get it to tell
> me both answers?
>
> I'm in 10th grade and were doing begining of the year review, I don't
> appreciate haveing to do the quadratics by hand. Any help would be much
> apreciated.
>
You didn't mention which calculator this pertains to, but on the TI-85,
you should be using the Polynomial (POLY) menu to solve Quadratics. This
method will give all solutions to Polynomials. (Real and/or Imaginary)
BTW it is much faster!
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