HP Apps: Solvers and Explorers 41
HP Apps: Solvers and Explorers
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Explorer Apps
Explorer Apps are designed to facilitate explorations of function families. These apps include the Linear, Quadratic, and Trigonometric
Explorers. All three of these apps are very similar in structure, with a main Numeric view.
The Linear Explorer App
The Linear Explorer app is a micro-world designed to explore slopes and intercepts of linear functions of the form y=ax and y=ax+b.
Press Apps, scroll to Linear Explorer, and press the START menu key to get started.
Solution
Press the Degrees/Radians menu key, if needed, to change to Degrees angle measure.
Enter A=9, B=6, and =30, as shown in the figure to the right. Press the SOLVE menu key
to see the results. The length of the third side is shown as C=11.76….
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Solution 1
Note, in this case, there is a second solution. Press the ALT menu key to see the second
solution, C=3.825…. Press the ALT menu key to toggle back and forth between the two
solutions.
Solution 2
Table 14- Triangle Solver HP App
Summary of Functionality View Name and Display
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