A fire truck has a 75 foot ladder. If the truck can safely park 20 feet from the building, how far up the building can the ladder reach assuming that the top of the base of the ladder is resting on top of the truck and the truck is 10 feet tall? Give the decimal approximation, rounded to 3 decimal places.

SOURCE: fraction problem

Go into MODE to the second page.  In Exact/Approximate, change it to Approx instead of Auto or Exact.  This will give you decimals instead of fractions.

SOURCE: need to program to fifth decimal place

Your BA II PLUS stores numeric values internally to an accuracy of 13 digits. However, the numbers it displays depends on the number of decimal places to which you have it set (choice of 0–9 or floating decimal). To set the number of decimal places displayed to three: hit [2ND][FORMAT][5][ENTER]This setting also continues indefinitely (even though the calculator is turned off and on) until it is changed.

SOURCE: 8,398 sq. ft.= how many feet.= what per cent of one acre?

Hello,
An acre (international unit) occupies a surface of 43 560 sq. feet
8398 sq. feet is
8398/ 43 560 =4199/21780 . You cannot go further.The decimal value of the result is 0.19279 which is a little less than 0.20 which is 1/5

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SOURCE: MY TI nspire always rounds

Turn it on, hit MODE then change the FLOAT value from 1 to Float itself. Float allows you to round, and something changed that setting

SOURCE: My calculator is only rounding

Press 2nd [FORMAT] and select the number of decimal places (9 for floating-decimal).