Assume that there are three separate tables showing the following information: 1. Date of visit data for visitors to a certain recreation facility. The same visitor may visit the facility multiple times 2. Fee per visit in different cites 3. Region in which each city lies The question is to analyse the three tables above via […]
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A tournament has 18 participating teams with 25 players in each team. Each team has to play five rounds of the Tournament and not all players play all rounds. Scores earned by each player in each round are shown in individual cells. If a player does not play a round, that cell is left empty. The task […]
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Assume numbers are typed in range A1:A2 of multiple worksheets in a workbook. The task is the compute the MODE of these numbers. Mode is defined as the value which appears most frequently in a range of cells. So, if one types 1,3,4,3,5,6 in range A1:A6, then the mode will be 3 – 3 appears maximum number of times in […]
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Assume per diem travel rates vary by block of dates (from and to). So, assume the per diem rate for travel dates between 26/2/2013 and 28/2/2013 is Rs. 78,000/day. Likewise, if a person travels between 1/3/2013 and 25/3/2013, the per diem rate applicable is Rs. 70,000/day. With different travel dates (from and to) specified per traveller, the […]
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Assume date wise revenue data has been shown on two sheets – Sports wear and Fitness equipment (Data worksheets). On each of these two worksheets, there are two columns – Date and Revenue. On the Summary worksheet, the user would like to summarise data (Count instances and sum revenue figures) based on multiple conditions. The […]
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Assume there is data for complaints received and complaints resolved for two years – 2009 and 2010 for some regions regions. Each Region has its own worksheet. There are three headings on each sheet – Particulars, 2009 and 2010. While the Particulars column has the text “Complaints received” and “Complaints resolved”, the year columns have number of complaints received […]
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In a range of cells, assume there is a list of invoices raised during a certain period. Since adequate care was not taken to number the invoices sequentially, there are missing invoice numbers in the Excel range. So, it is possible that after raising invoice number 501, 502 and 503 the next invoice raised was 507. Given […]
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In a list with multiple occurrences, the VLOOKUP() function in Excel will only return the first occurrence of the string being searched. Furthermore, the VLOOKUP() function returns data from one column only. To work with a list where there are multiple occurrences of a particular string and data has to be extracted from multiple columns, […]
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Data in a two column database (A3:B13) can be Auto filtered on column A with one or many conditions. Data in column B will be numbers only (positive, negative or 0’s) – no text values. After filtering data in column A, one may want to extract the unique numbers from column B to cell A18 (and then […]
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Assume a “Labour utilisation” report which shows day wise tasks performed by different employees (row labels are task names, column labels are days and data in the matrix shows employee names). Each employee can perform multiple tasks on the same day and same task on multiple days. Given a list of all employees, one may want to answer […]
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Create a Pivot Table from multiple individual ranges without using ancillary columns
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