Re: 2 answer quadratics on TI-85?
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On Thu, 03 Oct 1996 18:14:58 -0700, Ian <ianvf@geocities.com> wrote:
>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.
Use the POLY command...for a quadratic, order=2
then just type in the coefficients
it will give you the real and imaginary solutions to the equation
the solver won't give imaginary answers, and it only gives one answer,
so use POLY.. it works great!
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