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To change the color of the function, click the Color drop-down menu .
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Click Apply to view your changes in the editing window or click OK to record your changes and close the New
Parametric Function window.
Normal Curve
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Insert a Cartesian graph into a question, answer, matching
group, rationale, feedback, or narrative. To edit an existing
graph, double-click the graph or click Format from the menu
bar and select Format Graph.
2
Click the Axes tab, choose to hide the tick marks and the
tick-mark labels for both the horizontal and vertical axis. In the
example, the label for the vertical axis was changed to P(x)
and the font for the axis was changed to italic.
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Click the View tab, select Set graph left and change the x
coordinate to –5.
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Click the Functions tab, select Normal Curve from the drop-down menu and click New.
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Enter the mean and standard deviation for the curve. If you want the vertical axis to go through the mean, leave the
mean value set to zero.
NOTE
Variables can be used as values for the mean, standard deviation, shading limits, and scaling
factor.
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Optionally, for the shade part of the normal curve, select the option to shade curve form and enter the lower and
upper limits as a multiple of the standard deviation. In the example, the standard deviation was set to 1, and the
shading was set to –1 s to 1 s.
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Enter the scaling factor. This is used just for display purposes. The scaling factor in the example was set to 12.
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Optionally, to display the curve only if a certain condition is met, enter the condition in the field following Display curve
(only if ).
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To change the drawing style for the curve, click the Pattern drop-down menu .
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To change the color of the curve, click the Color drop-down menu .
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To change the style for the shaded region, click the Shading drop-down menu .
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Click Apply to view your changes in the editing window or click OK to record your changes and close the New Normal
Curve window.
Picture
Picture files, such as bitmap and jpegs, can be added to a Cartesian graph.
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Insert a Cartesian graph into a question, answer, matching group, rationale, feedback, or narrative.
To edit an existing graph, double-click the graph or click Format from the menu bar and select Format Graph.
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