Chemistry 103 – Experiments in General Chemistry

Microsoft Excel ® and Statistical Analysis

OBJECTIVE
To become proficient with the use of Microsoft Excel® by completing various tasks that utilizes MS
Excel functions and become familiar with statistical measures common to scientific results discussion.
INTRODUCTION

Reporting scientific data often involves plotting graphs to provide visual representations of
experimental results. It also becomes necessary to discuss results in terms of statistical analysis to
compare different results. In this lab exercise, you will research how to correctly complete each task.
It is imperative that each student do your own work – you may collaborate with your partner(s)
however; please remember that YOU must know how to do each task because they are necessary for
your lab reports.

INSTRUCTIONS

Complete the following tasks using Microsoft Excel®. Read and follow directions carefully. For this
assignment only, do NOT convert your files to PDF. Upload your Excel worksheets showing the
plotted graphs and calculations to Canvas by noon Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. You must use the
software equations for ALL calculations.

I. Create a Scatter Line Plot of the following values. What is the slope of this line? Calculate the sum,
mean, median and standard deviation of each column (x-values and y-values, separately). Determine the
equation of the line. Ensure you label each axis and title the graph.

Time(s) Volume CO2 (mL)

0 6.5

5 9

10 15

20 26.3

25 25

30 28.5

35 40

45 47

50 51

55 60
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Microsoft Excel ® and Statistical Analysis

II. Create Scatter Line Plots with the following data that depicts concentration of three different
reagents versus time. Your graph should have 3 line plots. Calculate the mean and standard deviation
of each set of concentration values ([A]t; [B]t; [C]t)

Time (s) [A]t (M) [B]t (M) [C]t (M)

0 0.0680 0.0680 0.0850
1 0.0663 0.0661 0.0827
2 0.0654 0.0651 0.0810
3 0.0643 0.0632 0.0791
4 0.0636 0.0618 0.0785
5 0.0619 0.0602 0.0756
6 0.0615 0.0598 0.0753
7 0.0600 0.0583 0.0735
8 0.0595 0.0572 0.0721
9 0.0579 0.0560 0.0698
10 0.0570 0.0548 0.0688
11 0.0566 0.0542 0.0680
12 0.0561 0.0526 0.0668
13 0.0549 0.0515 0.0652
14 0.0536 0.0510 0.0647
15 0.0528 0.0497 0.0629
16 0.0522 0.0489 0.0626
17 0.0519 0.0485 0.0605
18 0.0509 0.0474 0.0596
19 0.0507 0.0469 0.0593
20 0.0497 0.0461 0.0585
21 0.0494 0.0452 0.0574
22 0.0484 0.0442 0.0563
23 0.0480 0.0441 0.0556
24 0.0469 0.0427 0.0550
25 0.0469 0.0425 0.0542
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III. Create a bar graph with the following data. Label axes and give a title to your graph.

Year Cancer deaths (103)

1975 25

1980 62

1985 75

1990 100

1995 200

2000 350