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Adding and Changing Columns

Assign to a new column name to create it, using maths on other columns. assign does the same and returns a new DataFrame. For text, the .str methods work on a whole column at once. np.where or apply can pick values by rule.

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Quick check

What does `df['total'] = df['price'] * df['qty']` do?

Your turn: write the code

Add a column called months that is age * 12, then print the DataFrame.

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