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Monday, September 1, 2008

Trendline Lab

The trendline lab asks you to measure a bunch of circumferences and diameters to see if taking the ratio of those numbers will accurately (<5% percent error) produce pi. There is a second goal of this lab, to test if taking more data will improve the accuracy of the number you get. A trendline is used to get the average ratio in each case.