Good, reasonably priced ACT calculator?

Test Preparation
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<p>I'm taking the June ACT and I'm without a calculator. Anyone know a good graphing calculator for a reasonable price that's legal on the ACT?</p>

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<p>TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition
It’s in color, and that’s all you need to know. </p>

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<p>Not sure I’m wanting to drop 100 though lol</p>

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<p>You don’t really need much for the ACT. I used a basic scientific calculator (Ti-36X Pro), the most advanced thing it can do is solve for X in equations, but when you start throwing square roots or absolute values at it it goes fairly slowly.</p>

<p>Nonetheless, I don’t think you’d need anything too fancy, unless you want the calculator to do everything for you (circle equations, special right triangles etc.), aspects that, it is simply more time-efficient to actually know the material.</p>

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<p>Cheapest graphing calculator I can find is Casio on Wal-Mart, which runs around 40-70 USD.</p>

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<p>Scientific calculator that can evaluate logarithms, trig functions, etc. is probably your best buy.</p>

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<p>You can get it online for cheaper, I’m sure. I’d recommend a TI-84, Silver edition or not.</p>

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<p>Check out Amazon.</p>

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<p>Check your local pawn shops, thrift stores, etc. College kids that no longer need their calculators sometimes pawn them off. My brother picked up a TI-83 plus for 5 dollars. Now that’s reasonably priced!</p>

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<p>Well my problem has been somewhat solved. My uncle had a TI-86 lying around that I’m gonna use.</p>

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<p>That’s a very reasonable price!</p>