Preparations -- execute all comands in this section!
The display command -- used to overlay plots -- and other special plots
require that the plots-package be loaded first. (Other packages that are
handy in undergraduate math classes are linalg and student, also loaded
using the command with(packagename);
> with(plots):
Since angles are frequently of importance we set the global plot-preference
to draw all plots with equal scales along the axes.
> setoptions(scaling=constrained);
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