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How to modify an expression

If you’re typing an expression, the key enables you to erase what you’ve typed. If you’re selecting, you can:

Cancel the selection without deleting the expression

by pressing . The cursor moves to the end of the deselected portion.

Replace the selection with an expression, just by typing the desired expression.

Transform the selected expression by applying a CAS function to it (which you can invoke from one of CAS menus along the bottom of the screen).

Delete the selected expression by pressing:

Delete a selected unary operator at the top of the expression tree by pressing:

For example, to replace SIN(expr) with COS(expr),

select SIN(expr), press and then press COS.

Delete a binary infix operator and one of its arguments by selecting the argument you want delete and pressing:

For example, if you have the expression 1+2 and

select 1, pressing deletes 1+ and leaves only 2. Similarly, to delete F(x)= in the expression F(x)

=x2 x +1, you select F(x) and then press . This produces x = x2 x +1.

Delete a binary operator by selecting:

Edit expr.

from the menu and then making the correction.

Copy an element from CAS history. You access CAS

history by pressing . See page 15-19 for details.

Equation Writer

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