1. Introduction to Microsoft Excel living with the lab © 2012 David Hall

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3. provides for convenient input of data in tables allows calculations to be performed on the tabular data includes functions for analyzing data (sine, cosine, average, max, min, sum,...) allows for the plotting of tabular data uses linear regression to find mathematical representations of data... and much, much more 3 living with the lab Microsoft Excel is a software package that...

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