The calculation of 500 words- Electronics Online Challenge Sponsored by Texas Instruments

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Pardon the late post, but I am finishing my report for the challenge. I have a couple questions about the technicalities of fitting within 500 words.

  1. If I were to make a table of contents, and have those table of contents words appear again in the report as a section header, would that count toward the 500 words?

  2. If I were to have graphics such as bar charts with text in them, could I use the 25 word buffer covered by photos to be used on the chart itself? I have attached a crude example. In the example, I have 10 words of captions thought the entire graph, under the limit of 25.

Thank you in advance for the last minute reply.
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Great questions.
Table of Contents will not count against the total word count; however, section headers do count if they are in the body of the report. Page numbers at the bottom or header/footer labels not in the body of the report also do not count against the total word count.
Text appearing in charts/graphs/imagery will not count against the total or the 25 word caption limit. Captions for the charts/graphs/imagery need to be limited to 25.

Thanks and good luck!
Janice

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