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INSTITUTION: MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL: SCHOOLOFCOMPUTINGAND INFORMATICS

DEPARTMENT: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNIT TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATION


PACKAGES

UNIT CODE: BIT1106

NAME: ERICK AMWAYI

REG NO: BIT/2017/75704

TASK: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATION PACKAGES


CAT 1 AND CAT 2

SUBMITTED ON 28TH OCTOBER 2019


SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT TEST 1&2
UNIT NAME: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATION PACKAGES
UNIT CODE: BIT1106

a) The following is an extract of data of products sold by agents of Haraka agency. Use it to
answer the questions that follow.

A B C D E F G H I J
AGENT MONTHLY SALES
NAME
1 JAN FEB MA APRI MA JUN TOT AVE MAX
R L Y AL R
2 NAIKUNI 5,000 2040 2500 1000 6700 2900
3 KAROTI 4650 2150 3500 5400 4500 2400
4 MUGABE 1950 9050 3935 8700 9800 3500
5 BASHIR 3000 5500 6600 3200 2500 5500
6 OWINO 3300 9830 7540 8600 6300 6550

Show how you would use a Function to:


Calculate the total Sales per Agent for ALL the Months (4 marks)

 Select cell h2
 Enter the formula: =sum (b2:g2)
 Drag the cursor from cell h2 downwards cell h6 to obtain the total sale for all the agents

i) Compute the Average Sales per Agent for ALL the Months (4 marks)
 Select cell H2
 Enter the formula: = average (b2:g2)
 Drag the cursor from cell h2 downwards to h6 to obtain the average for the agents

ii) Compute MAX average value in column J (2 marks)


 Select cell H2
 Enter the formula =maximum (h2:g2)
 Then drag the cursor downwards to obtain the maximum
iii) Explain how the sales manager will represent the average sales in a pie chart
(4 marks)
 Selecting the average column
 Click insert, click pie chart
 Click the chart and then click finish to insert the chart.
b) Outline the procedure for carrying out the following tasks in a presentation program
(4marks).
c) i)Customizing a presentation
 Open the blank presentation
 Choose a theme from PowerPoint predefined themes; this is located under the
design tab
 Pick a variant if you like, such as color this is located under the design tab.
 Customize the design by choosing whether you like a solid, gradient, picture or
pattern fill. Click format background in the design tab next to variant to open a
slidebar.choose customizes options such as fill colors.

i) Adding custom animations


 Click animations at the top of the screen
 Click more button in the animation gallery
 Click custom path in the motion paths pane of the popup window
 Trace the path you want the animation to follow.

d) Explain three different areas where databases application software’s can be used.

(6marks)
Banking system: it is used for storing customer information, tracking daily credit and
debit transactions, bank statement generation. This has been achieved by the use of
database management systems.
Education: database is used in colleges to store and retrieve data of students, staff
information, and examination detail and payment system of the workers.
Sales: it is used to store customer details, production information and the details of
invoice.

e) Describe the process you would use to send one letter to many people using the mail
merge feature in word (6 marks)

 In a blank Microsoft word document, click on the mailings tab, and in the start
mail merge group, click start mail merge.
 Click step-by step mail merge wizard.
 Select your document type. In this demo we will select letters.
 Select the starting document. In this demo we will use the current blank
document. Select use the current document and then click next.
 Select recipients. In this demo we will create a new list, so select type a new list
and then click create
 Write the letter and add custom fields.

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