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 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 ```
 
-- Simple plots are then (fairly) simple to create.
+- Simple plots can be created with a single call, to `plt.plot` with the x variable and then y variable to
+  plot as the arguments:
 
 ```python
 time = [0, 1, 2, 3]