HP Prime User Guide - HPCC

1 HP Prime Graphing Calculator user Guide Edition1. Part Number NW280-2001. Legal Notices This manual and any examples contained herein are provided "as is" and are subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard Company makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, non- infringement and fitness for a particular purpose. Portions of this software are copyright 2013 The FreeType Project ( ). All rights reserved. HP is distributing FreeType under the FreeType License. HP is distributing google-droid-fonts under the Apache Software License HP is distributing HIDAPI under the BSD license only. HP is distributing Qt under the license.

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3 Printing History Edition 1 July 2013. Contents Preface Manual conventions .. 9. Notice .. 10. 1 Getting started Before starting .. 11. On/off, cancel 12. The display .. 13. Sections of the display .. 14. 16. Touch gestures .. 17. The keyboard .. 18. Context-sensitive menu .. 19. Entry and edit 20. Shift 22. Adding 23. Math keys .. 24. Menus .. 28. Toolbox 29. Input forms .. 29. System-wide settings .. 30. Home settings .. 30. Specifying a Home setting .. 35. Mathematical calculations .. 36. Choosing an entry type .. 36. Entering expressions .. 37. Reusing previous expressions and results .. 40. Storing a value in a 42. Complex numbers .. 44. Sharing data .. 44. Online Help .. 46. 2 Reverse Polish Notation (RPN).

4 History in RPN mode .. 48. Sample 49. Manipulating the 51. 3 Computer algebra system (CAS). CAS 53. CAS 54. 55. Contents 1. 4 exam mode Modifying the default 62. Creating a new configuration .. 63. Activating exam mode .. 64. Cancelling exam 66. Modifying 66. To change a configuration .. 66. To return to the default configuration .. 67. Deleting configurations .. 67. 5 An introduction to HP apps Application Library .. 71. App views .. 73. Symbolic view .. 73. Symbolic Setup view .. 74. Plot view .. 75. Plot Setup view .. 76. Numeric 77. Numeric Setup view .. 78. Quick 79. Common operations in Symbolic 81. Symbolic view: Summary of menu 86. Common operations in Symbolic Setup 87. Common operations in Plot view.

5 88. Zoom .. 88. 94. Plot view: Summary of menu 96. Common operations in Plot Setup 96. Configure Plot view .. 96. Common operations in Numeric view .. 100. Zoom .. 100. 102. Custom 103. Numeric view: Summary of menu 104. Common operations in Numeric Setup 105. Combining Plot and Numeric 106. Adding a note to an 106. Creating an 107. App functions and variables .. 109. 2 Contents 6 Function app Getting started with the Function app .. 111. Analyzing functions .. 118. The Function 122. Summary of FCN operations .. 124. 7 Advanced Graphing app Getting started with the Advanced Graphing app .. 126. Plot Gallery .. 134. Exploring a plot from the Plot 134. 8 Geometry Getting started with the Geometry app .. 135. Plot view in 141.

6 Plot Setup 146. Symbolic view in detail .. 148. Symbolic Setup 150. Numeric view in detail .. 150. Geometric objects .. 153. Geometric transformations .. 161. Geometry functions and 165. Symbolic view: Cmds menu .. 165. Numeric view: Cmds 182. Other Geometry 189. 9 Spreadsheet Getting started with the Spreadsheet 195. Basic operations .. 199. Navigation, selection and gestures .. 199. Cell references .. 200. Cell naming .. 200. Entering content .. 201. Copy and paste .. 204. External references .. 204. Referencing 205. Using the CAS in spreadsheet calculations .. 206. Buttons and keys .. 207. Formatting options .. 208. Spreadsheet functions .. 210. 10 Statistics 1 Var app Getting started with the Statistics 1 Var app.

7 211. Entering and editing statistical data .. 215. Computed 218. Plotting .. 219. Contents 3. Plot types .. 219. Setting up the plot (Plot Setup view).. 221. Exploring the graph .. 221. 11 Statistics 2 Var app Getting started with the Statistics 2 Var 223. Entering and editing statistical data .. 228. Numeric view menu items .. 229. Defining a regression model .. 231. Computed statistics .. 233. Plotting statistical 234. Plot view: menu items .. 236. Plot setup .. 236. Predicting 237. Troubleshooting a plot .. 238. 12 Inference app Getting started with the Inference 239. Importing statistics .. 243. Hypothesis tests .. 245. One-Sample Z-Test .. 246. Two-Sample Z-Test .. 247. One-Proportion Z-Test .. 248. Two-Proportion Z-Test.

8 249. One-Sample T-Test .. 250. Two-Sample T-Test .. 251. Confidence intervals .. 253. One-Sample Z-Interval .. 253. Two-Sample 253. One-Proportion Z-Interval .. 254. Two-Proportion 255. One-Sample 256. Two-Sample T-Interval .. 256. 13 Solve app Getting started with the Solve app .. 259. One equation .. 260. Several equations .. 263. 264. Solution information .. 265. 14 Linear Solver app Getting started with the Linear Solver 267. Menu items .. 269. 4 Contents 15 Parametric app Getting started with the Parametric app .. 271. 16 Polar app Getting started with the Polar app .. 277. 17 Sequence app Getting started with the Sequence app .. 281. Another example: Explicitly-defined sequences .. 285. 18 Finance app Getting Started with the Finance 287.

9 Time value of money (TVM) .. 290. TVM calculations: Another 291. Calculating 293. 19 Triangle Solver app Getting started with the Triangle Solver app .. 295. Choosing triangle types .. 297. Special cases .. 298. 20 The Explorer apps Linear Explorer 299. Quadratic Explorer app .. 302. Trig Explorer app .. 304. 21 Functions and commands Keyboard functions .. 309. Math 313. Numbers .. 313. Arithmetic .. 314. 316. Hyperbolic .. 317. Probability .. 317. 322. 323. Special .. 323. CAS 324. Algebra .. 324. Calculus .. 326. Solve .. 330. 332. Integer .. 337. 339. Plot .. 346. Contents 5. App menu .. 347. Function app 348. Solve app functions .. 349. Spreadsheet app functions .. 349. Statistics 1 Var app 363. Statistics 2 Var app 365.

10 Inference app 366. Finance app functions .. 372. Linear Solver app functions .. 374. Triangle Solver app functions .. 374. Linear Explorer functions .. 376. Quadratic Explorer functions .. 377. Common app 377. Ctlg 378. Creating your own functions .. 421. 22 Variables Qualifying variables .. 427. Home variables .. 428. App variables .. 429. Function app variables .. 429. Geometry app variables .. 430. Spreadsheet app 431. Solve app variables .. 431. Advanced Graphing app variables .. 432. Statistics 1 Var app variables .. 433. Statistics 2 Var app variables .. 435. Inference app variables .. 437. Parametric app variables .. 439. Polar app 440. Finance app variables .. 440. Linear Solver app variables .. 441. Triangle Solver app variables.