Is my TI-89 calculator correctly expanding partial fractions?

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I am trying to use partial fractions to expand (3200x+16)/(x+400)^2 on the ti-89 calculator but I keep getting .010075 as the answer when I use the expand function! What am I doing wrong here?
 
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Clear the variables; if you have stored x as a constant (given it a value) then you will get a numerical result.