The price of the calculator is understandable, given the audience it is targeting. What is mind-boggling for me is that Texas Instruments can still get away with selling a TI-84 for $100 new, no doubt with The College Board's help. They are artificially keeping prices high for students by authorizing only a short list of calculators for exams. They don't even allow non-graphing scientific calculators to be used on the AP Calculus BC exam, you must use an expensive graphing calculator.
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