I think that's just for the search, not for the calculator. I'll double check my answer nonetheless on my graphing calculator or just replug it in again but shorten it
. Thanks for spotting it.Teachers like to see your work shown. I still do show my work in full, but as for plugging in at the very end, it's a 1 step thing. Usually all the variable elimination/reduction/simplification stuff comes before all this, so I discount that from the plugging in portion. Only once I've gotten the final simplified equation do I just write out the answer. I have been berated for this before by a couple of professors, but they can't argue if I get the right equation and the right final answer in the right units.
Is this what you mean, or are they seriously asking you to write like (5 m^2) / (3.35 s^3) * 6.67E-11 Nm^2/Kg^2 etc etc etc.
I do the opposite. I write the short-ish answer for rough, in prep for the problem/discussion section. There's no point in writing the entire thing out if you're just going to the blackboard and saying "this is the process by which I got to this final equation and then I plugged in the values and got X". For the final homework I always make sure to show steps because I've been marked severely in the past for getting the answer completely wrong at the end even though it was just an algebraic issue.
I now write my problems like
Integrating gives => <whatever the equation is>
Dividing r^2 gives => <next step>
and so on.
