 Statistics and Excel. Typing mathematical equations in Microsoft Excel. Get ready taking a deep breath holding it in for 10 seconds and looking forward to a smooth soothing Excel. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook that's okay because we'll basically build this from a blank worksheet but if you do have access just two tabs down below this time example and blank example in essence answer key blank tab blank worksheet where we will work through the practice problem together. Let's take a look at the example tab to get an idea of where we will be going. Now note when we think about actual mathematical formulas and equations things that look like this on the left hand side it can be a little bit confusing when we then try to work through practice problems in Excel because we usually think about in Excel functions which start with say an equal sign like this