The Formula dialog provides a way to enter an expression and a Maple operation. What appears on the screen is the result of the operation and depends upon active definitions of variables that appear in the formula. Formulas remain active in your document–that is, changing definitions of relevant variables will change the data on the screen.
When Helper Lines are turned on, a Formula is identified by a yellow background.
To insert a formula
- or -
From the Insert menu, choose Field and then choose Formula.
Scientific Notebook displays the results of the operation on the screen.
First variation: Define
a1 = 2 and
b1 = 5 by
placing the insertion point in each equation and choosing Define + New
Definition.
After printing a quiz, make different definitions for
a1
and
b1 to obtain additional variations of the quiz.