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EX NO 1: Create a new excel worksheet and Add two numbers

Steps:
1. Open a spread sheet and type in the labels called number 1 and
number 2 in the cells A1 and B1 and add in the cell C1. This is just for
us to identify the values and they are not involved in actual execution
2. In A2 and B2, type in the numbers to be added.
3. In C2, type in =A2+B2 and press enter to display the result. In excel
calculations are prefixed with = sign followed by the operation on
cells
4. The cell number represents the numbers (For e.g A2 and B2 are used
which denote 3 and 5 respectively with a plus sign in between as in
the case of normal addition.
5. To add more than two numbers, add as many columns (number1,
number2, number3 etc., and extend the formula as =A2+B2+C2+….

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Ex No 2: Create a new excel worksheet and Add 5 sets of two numbers

Steps:

1. Type in as many number of sets of numbers you want under the

columns number1 and number2 and then click on the cell C2 and
move your cursor to the bottom right corner of the cell
2. The cursor changes to + sign. Now keeping the left mouse button
down drag the cursor till the last set of numbers and you can see that
the cells are filled with the results.

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Ex No 3:
Consider the problem of preparing a stationary order for the month of
March. The item description, quantity and cost per item are available. The
total cost per item is to be calculated and the final cost per item involves a
sales tax of 2% over the total cost. The gross total and the net total are to be
displayed.

Steps:

1. Create an excel sheet with the available data as shown below:

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2. Add the columns total cost per item, VAT and Cost + VAT
3. Fill in the V.A.T value (2%) in one of the cells say G1 so as to not to
affect the other calculations.
4. Multiply quantity*cost per item to obtain the total cost
5. Multiply the V.A.T value with the total cost of each item to obtain
V.A.T column
a. Observe what happens when you drag the cells after you fill in
the formula for the first item
b. The first item gets filled correctly but the other items show zero
as shown below:

c. This is because the formula changes relatively for the

subsequent cells as D4*G2,D5*G3 etc.. Where as the value is
present only in one cell G1. To prevent this automatic changing
of cell values (also called relative referencing which excel does
by default), anchor the cell G1 as G$1. The $ infront of a row or
column prevents automatic updation of the row/column value
when dragged. Here G is stationary by default but rows change

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as 1,2,3,.. etc so we anchor the row as G$1. and then drag the
formula which updates the cells properly as shown below:

6. Calculate Cost + VAT

7. Display the total cost
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Ex.No 4. Using the given datasets of students' names, scores, create a formula to
calculate the following:

Total sum of all scores.

Total sum of scores for Alice.
Average score.
Count of students with recorded scores.
Count of non-empty cells in the "Name" column.
Count the students with name as “Bob”
Minimum score.
Maximum score.
Compute grade of student,if score >80 pass else fail.

Steps:
1. To compute sum ,type =SUM(B2:B7)
2. To compute sum of scores of Alice, type =IF(B2>80,"pass","fail") and drag it
down
3. To compute average score, type =AVERAGE(B2:B7)
4. To compute count of students with recorded scores,type =COUNT(B2:B7)
5. To compute non empty cells in the name column, type =COUNTA(A2:A7)
6. To Count the students with name as “Bob”, type =COUNTIF(A2:A7,"bob")
7. To compute Minimum score,type =MIN(B2:B7)
8. To compute maximum score, type =MAX(B2:B7)
9. To compute grade of students, type =IF(B2>80,"pass","fail")
To discard empty cells, type =IF(B2<>"",IF(B2>82,"pass","fail"),"")

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Ex No 5: Let us consider the problem of finding the total and average of 3

subject marks for five students in a class in the board exam. The data is
entered into the spread sheet as shown below:

Steps:

1. To calculate sum, type =sum( in the cell F2 and click and drag the
cells C2, D2 and E2 i.e., =sum(C2:E2) where : denotes the range to
add maths physics and chemistry marks of student no1.
2. For calculating sum for other students, click and drag the sum value of
F2 till F6
3. Similarly calculate average as =average(C2,D2,E2) or
=average(C2:E2). The first case is used if the cells are not continuous
whereas the second case is used when the cells are continuous.
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Ex No 6:
Calculate the Maximum mark, minimum mark, mean, median, standard
deviation and variance for each subject.

Steps:

1. Type the labels Maximum, Minimum etc in the required columns as

shown above
2. Type in the required formulae or choose the formulae by going to the
menu InsertFunction and pick from the category as required and fill
in each value for the first subject (Maths)
3. For physics and chemistry just click and drag the formula cells of
maths horizontally to calculate each formula (Max,min etc)
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Ex.No 7:
In this problem you are given the name, gender, attendance, assignment,
midterm and final grades of five students. Find the total of the assessment
marks. Students who pass need to have a total score greater than or equal to
50. Display the word "Pass" or "Fail" under a column called Description

Steps:

1. Create a column called description

2. In the first student’s description cell type the IF function using the
total cell’s no to check pass or fail
3. For e.g., in the above fig, in Virak’s description cell, type
=if(G2>50,”pass”,”fail”)
4. Drag the results to all the remaining cells which need computation
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Ex.No 8:
Extend the above pass/fail computation problem to include attendance also.
A student passes if he has an attendance greater than 8 else he fails even if
he has a total greater than 50

Solution:
Modify the formula in the previous problem as
=IF(AND(C12>8,G12>=50),"pass","fail")
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Ex No 9:
In the previous problem, without considering attendance as criteria for
passing, calculate the grades of the students as per the grade rule table given
below:

Marks Range Grade

Score>=90 A
90>Total B
Score>=80
80>Total C
Score>=70
70>Total D
Score>=60
60>Total E
Score>=50
Total Score < 50 F
If all the grades (A to F) are not displayed in your grade column add some
student entries that have marks falling in the appropriate grades and verify
your formula.

Steps:

1. Add a column called grade

2. This problem needs to be solved using if function within if function as
follows:
For example if Virak’s total cell is G22 then the function is formulated as
=IF(G22>=90,"A",IF(AND(G22>=80,G22<90),"B",IF(AND(G22>=70,
G22<80),"C",IF(AND(G22>=60,G22<70),"D",IF(AND(G22>=50,G22<
60),"E","F")))))

3. The above function is written as an outer IF function which has one

grade in its true part if the condition is satisfied and the next grade rule
is written in the false part of the previous grade rule and the writing
continues for all the grades.

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Ex No 10:
Given the below worksheet Write appropriate text functions in excel to
calculate first name, last name and email id.

Steps:

1. The formula for calculating last name is =LEFT(A2,FIND(" ",A2)-1)

2. The formula for calculating first name is
=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)FIND(" ",A2))
3. The formula for calculating email is
=CONCATENATE(B2,"_",C2,"@gmail.com")
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Ex No 11:
Given the table below,
1. Use hlookup function to display student's name Sok Pagan
2. Use vlookup function to find the computer score of the students
named Khorn Channa and Cheng Sokun

Steps:

1. Hlookup is applied using the formula

=HLOOKUP("Name",A1:A7,5,FALSE)
2. Vlookup can be performed using the formula
=VLOOKUP("Khorn Channa",A1:D7,2,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP("Cheng Sokun",A1:D7,2,FALSE)
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