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Course Instructors

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Jerri England , bio
Instructor England teaches Math 1524, Business Calculus, in the Math Emporium.
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Diane Agud , bio
Diane Agud is a Senior Instructor who has been teaching 1000-2000 level undergraduate mathematics courses at VT for 30 years. Ms. Agud also serves on several Departmental and University committees and University commissions. Some of the committees/commissions she is involved with are Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Cabinet, CFA, COSFA, Undergraduate Honor System, K-12 Outreach. She is also a course coordinator for Math 1014, Math 1025, and Math 1226.

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Virtual Tutoring

Virtual Tutoring is offered 9am-5pm weekdays. See your course Canvas page for more information.

Testing Hours

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Excel Help

Microsoft has some helpful guides for how to use Excel (click for the guide):

Overview of Formulas in Excel.
Functions in Excel (with their instructions).
- Sine function use with examples (always use radians).
- Cosine function use with examples (always use radians).
- Radians function (input degrees converts to radians).
- Exponential function EXP.
- Natural Log function LN.
- Power function. You can use =number^power or the =POWER(number,power).
  - Important example: cube roots require that you use the 1/3 power, etc.
  - Important order of operations issue: in Excel, if you type =-4^2 do you want (-4)^2 or -(4^2)? Use parenthesis appropriately.
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