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=Creating a Graph in EXCEL=

Moving to the computer.
You will need to open a new worksheet in Excel. This symbol should be in your dock on the bottom of your screen.

If this symbol is not in your dock, you will need to click on the finder  then click on applications. Now you will scroll down to click on. In the new menu double click. You are now ready to begin

Once Excel is open it should look like this:

Type the name of the hair color in each of the boxes on the top line.

Now your worksheet will look like this: Notice that you put all the color names in row 1.

Now in row 2, you are going to add your total tally marks for each hair color.

Your worksheet will look like this, but your numbers will be different from mine.

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==Now we are ready to make our graph. Since all of these students are in the same class, the class is our WHOLE. For this reason we are going to create a pie graph to display the haircolor of our WHOLE class.==

Using your graph, can you quickly tell me which hair color is the 2nd most common in your class?
===Now that you have completed this graph, go back and using the same data, try to create another type of graph, such as a column or a bar graph. Just click on the graphing tool and click on a new type of graph. Excel will do the work for you.===

Congratulations. You have learned how to create a graph using Excel! Wow, Way to go!


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