You are unable to work out the calculations for your lab report but you know what the correct answer should be. Since your report is due, you take one of your numbers from someone else's lab report so that you can arrive at the correct answer. Is this considered to be plagiarism?

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No, it's not plagiarism. This was such a tiny part of the lab report, that it really doesn't matter.

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Yes. Since you are copying someone else's work without crediting the source, this is clearly plagiarism.

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No, it's not plagiarism. Your teacher doesn't expect everything to work out and if she knows that you falsified a few of your numbers to fit in with your results she won't be worried about it because the important thing is that you tried and that you understand what should have happened.

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