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An introduction to HP apps

Much of the functionality of the HP Prime is provided in packages called HP apps. The HP Prime comes with 18 HP apps: 10 dedicated to mathematical topics or tasks, three specialized Solvers, three function Explorers, a spreadsheet, and an app for recording data streamed to the calculator from an external sensing device. You launch an app by first pressing I(which displays the Application Library screen) and tapping on the icon for the app you want.

What each app enables you to do is outlined in the following, where the apps are listed in alphabetical order.

App name

Use this app to:

 

 

Advanced

Explore the graphs of symbolic open

Graphing

sentences in x and y. Example:

 

x2 + y2 = 64

DataStreamer

Collect real-world data from scientific

 

sensors and export it to a statistics app for

 

analysis.

Finance

Solve time-value-of-money (TVM) problems

 

and amortization problems.

Function

Explore real-valued, rectangular functions

 

of y in terms of x. Example:

 

y = 2x2 + 3x + 5

Geometry

Explore geometric constructions and

 

perform geometric calculations.

Inference

Explore confidence intervals and

 

hypothesis tests based on the Normal and

 

Student’s t-distributions.

Linear Explorer

Explore the properties of linear equations

 

and test your knowledge.

 

 

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