QUICK START GUIDE

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The status bar will display messages and current status like battery level,angle mode, fraction results, complex mode, or input/output settings.
Select the desired icon by highlighting it and pressing l orpressing the number or letter in the upper right corner.
The function keys allow you to access the tab (soft key) menus thatappear at the bottom of the screen. When an (>) appears above the ukey, selecting u will offer more on-screen choices.
The p key displays every mode the calculator has. To select a mode,press $N to the desired icon and press l or press the numberor letter in the upper right hand corner of the icon.
The d key operates like the back arrow on a web browser; it will takeyou back one screen each time you select it. The d key will not takeyou to the icon menu.
The L key activates any function displayed on or above the calculator
buttons that is yellow. For example, to find the square root of a number,
you would need to press L, then s. L5gives you accessto on-screen color formatting.
The Okey will power the unit on. To turn the unit off, press L O.
The a key activates any function displayed on or above thecalculator buttons that is in red. For example, to type the letter A,
press a, then f.
The l key executes operations. When data is entered, the lbutton must be pressed to store the data.

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The following explains the meaning of each icon on the fx-CG50 icon menu
Icon

2Menu Name

Description

RUN-MATRIXThis icon menu is used for general computations, including binary, octal, decimal, andhexadecimal functions and matrices.

STATISTICS

This icon menu is used to perform single-variable (standard deviation) and paired variable(regression) statistical calculations, to perform tests, to analyze data and to draw statisticalgraphs.

eACTIVITYThis icon menu lets you input text, math expressions, and other data in a notebook-like interface.
Use this mode when you want to store text, formulas, or built-in application data in a file.

SPREADSHEETThis icon menu is used for creating spreadsheets.

GRAPH

This icon menu is used to draw, store and calculate information from functions.

DYNAMIC
GRAPHThis icon menu is used to store graph functions and to draw multiple versions of a graph bychanging the values assigned to the variables in a function.

TABLE

This icon menu is used to store functions, to generate a numeric table of different solutions
as the values assigned to variables in a function change, and to draw graphs.

RECURSION

This icon menu is used to store recursion formulas, to generate a numeric table of different
solutions as the values assigned to variables in a function change, and to draw graphs.

CONIC
GRAPH

This icon menu is used to graph parabolas, circles, ellipses, and hyperbolas. Conic sections canbe inputted as rectangular functions, polar coordinates, or parametric functions for graphing.

EQUATION

This icon menu is used to solve linear equations with two through six unknowns,
and high-order equations from 2nd to 6th degree.

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The following explains the meaning of each icon on the fx-CG50 icon menu
Icon

Menu Name

Description

PROGRAM

This icon menu is used to store programs in the program area and to run programs.

FINANCIALThis icon menu is used to perform financial calculations and to draw cash flow
and other types of graphs.

E-CON4This icon menu is used to control the optionally available EA-200 Data Analyzer. For information
about this icon menu, download the E-CON manual from http://edu.casio.com.

LINK

This icon menu is used to transfer memory contents or back-up data to another unit or PC.

MEMORYThis icon is used to manage data stored in memory.

SYSTEM

This icon menu is used to initialize memory, adjust contrast, reset memory, and to manageother system settings.

GEOMETRYThis icon menu allows you to draw, analyze and animate geometric objects.

PICTURE
PLOT

This icon menu allows you to plot points (that represent coordinates) on the screen
and then perform various analysis based on the plotted data.

3D GRAPH

This icon menu allows you to draw 3-dimensional graphs.

CONVERSIONThis icon menu indicates the “Metric Conversion” add-in application is installed.
To do conversions, go to the Run-Matrix icon and press i.

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