The document provides instructions for a computer laboratory activity introducing students to basic spreadsheet functions and data analysis in Microsoft Excel. The activity has students open Excel, enter sample sales data, calculate statistics like average, maximum, minimum sales and total sales using functions, format the data as a table, add a bar chart with data labels to visualize the results, and save and submit the completed spreadsheet.
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Computer Laboratory Activity 1
The document provides instructions for a computer laboratory activity introducing students to basic spreadsheet functions and data analysis in Microsoft Excel. The activity has students open Excel, enter sample sales data, calculate statistics like average, maximum, minimum sales and total sales using functions, format the data as a table, add a bar chart with data labels to visualize the results, and save and submit the completed spreadsheet.
Introduction to Spreadsheet Functions and Data Analysis Objective: To familiarize students with basic spreadsheet functions and data analysis techniques using Microsoft Excel.
Tools Required: Calculating Average Sales
Computer with Microsoft Excel installed In cell A7, enter "Average Sales". In cell B7, calculate the average sales using the Activities: AVERAGE function. *Opening Excel and Creating a New Spreadsheet *Open Microsoft Excel. Calculating Maximum and Minimum Sales *Create a new spreadsheet. In cells A8 and A9, enter "Max Sales" and "Min *Save the spreadsheet as "Lab1_SalesData.xlsx". Sales" respectively.
Entering Data In cells B8 and B9, calculate the maximum and
Enter the following sales data for a fictional minimum sales using the MAX and MIN company for the month of January: functions. Cell A1:A5 and Cell B1:B5 - Product A: 100 units Formatting Data - Product B: 150 units Format the sales data in columns A and B as a - Product C: 80 units table. - Product D: 120 units Apply currency formatting to the sales values in In Cell C1, enter “Price per unit” column B.
Cell C1:C5 Data Visualization
- Set an amount on every product Create a bar chart to visualize the sales data. Add data labels to the chart to display the exact Calculating product sales and total sales sales values. In Cell D1, Enter “Product Sales” Saving and Submitting In Cell D2:D5, calculate each of the product sales Save the spreadsheet. Submit the saved file to the instructor for In cell A6, enter "Total". evaluation. In cell B6, calculate the Units Sold using the SUM function.