Markdown Syntax

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Exercise

Recreate the following paragraph in your Quarto document using Markdown:

Meet Quarto

Quarto enables you to weave together content and executable code into a finished document. 
To learn more about Quarto see https://quarto.org.

Meet the penguins

The penguins data from the palmerpenguins package contains size measurements for 
344 penguins from three species observed on three islands in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. 

What It Should Look Like

Links you need

• You can find the illustration of the three species of Palmer Archipelago penguins (Chinstrap, Gentoo, and Adelie) here: https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/reference/figures/lter_penguins.png.
• The link to the Palmer Penguins package is here: https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/

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