Top 20 Texas Instruments BA-II Plus Calculator Questions & Answers

Good morning Cesar The guide for you calculator can be found here https://education.ti.com/en/us/guidebook/details/en/ADF11FB65B284B6195B0A7E9502784BA/baiiplus If you go to page 12, you'll see that this operation, for 42.2 to the 1.56 power would be done with [42.2] [Y^X][1.56][=] You could also do this with [42.2][ln][X][1.56][=][e^X] to do it with logarithms (which is how the calculator is doing it as well). Happy New Year! DH

Press SETUP 0 0 then a digit specifying the number of decimal places you want.

2nd [*] (x!)

use the +/- key to the right of the decimal point key.

Please read the manual.

Were you also clearing the financial memory with 2nd [CLR TVM], or just the storage memory? If you don't, it's going to keep using whatever value you last used for PMT.

You must select the memory location (M0 to M9) To store 45 in Memory M7, type in 45, press the STOre key, then press 7. To recall the contents of M7 press RCL 7

As an example, to calculate 2 raised to the 3rd power, press 2 y^x 3 =

Sorry, but the BA-II doesn't do fractions. It only works with decimal numbers.

Let's see, 10% interest per year on $100 for one month. That's 10/12 of a percent interest on $100 is $0.83, added to $100 is $100.83 (with a bunch more 3s at the end). Clearly this is the correct answer. What answer are you expecting? The future value at the end of one year instead of one month?

Look at the keyboard and see if you can find a key marked BIN, OCT, HEX, DEC. If you cannot find these keys, the calculator does not perform Base-N calculations. That seems unnecessary on a Business Calculator.