CGS 2518 Exam 1 Multiple Choice
Questions with correct Answers
Chapter 1 - Answers -
Cell A5 is the active cell. You want to make cell B10 the active cell. Which of the
following is not a method for going to cell B10? - Answers -Type B10 in the Formula Bar
and press Enter.
Which step is not part of planning a worksheet design? - Answers -Enter labels, values,
and formulas.
Cell A2 contains the regular price $100. Cell B2 contains the discount rate 15%. Cell C3
contains =A2*(1-B2) to calculate the sale price of $85. Which of the following formulas
produces the same result? - Answers -=A2-(A2*B2)
What should you do if you see pound signs (###) instead of values or results of
formulas? - Answers -Increase the column width.
You just copied a range of data containing formulas. However, you want to preserve the
formula results and the original number and text formatting in the pasted range. Which
paste option would you select? - Answers -Values & Source Formatting
The label Souvenir Shop is in cell A1, and April Sales Report is in cell B1. You select
the range A1:E1 and click Merge & Center. What is the result? - Answers -Souvenir
Shop is centered over the range A1:E1, and April Sales Report is deleted.
What number format places a dollar sign on the left side of the cell, includes commas to
separate thousands, displays two decimal places, and displays zero values as
hyphens? - Answers -Accounting Number Format
Which of the following functions should be used to determine how far the sample data is
spread around the mean? - Answers -STDEV.S
A worksheet contains sales dollars for agents with your company. The values are
$1,250, $1,090, $985, $985, $880, $756, $675, $650, and $600. What function could be
used to return the third largest value? - Answers -LARGE
What function would you use to calculate the strength of a relationship between two or
more variables? - Answers -CORREL
, You hypothesize that there is a relationship between lack of regular exercise and
illness. To research this theory, you have compiled a sample set of data that contains
numbers of days in which an hour or more of exercise is completed as well as numbers
of days sick within a calendar year. What tool in Excel could you use to investigate the
relationships between the data? - Answers -CORREL
What is the difference between STDEV.S and STDEV.P? - Answers -STDEV.S
calculates the standard deviation of a sample; STDEV.P calculates the standard
deviation of a population.
You want to copy the March worksheet to use it to enter data for April. After you right-
click the March sheet tab and select Move or Copy, you click OK in the Move or Copy
dialog box without changing any settings. What happens? - Answers -The March sheet
is moved to the left of the first sheet tab. The worksheet is not copied.
The Header & Footer Tools tab contains commands that insert codes into a header or
footer. These codes enable the header or footer text to change automatically. You can
insert a code for all of the following except: - Answers -Your Name.
Assume that the data on a worksheet consume a whole printed page and two columns
on a second page. You can do all of the following except what to force the data to print
all on one page? - Answers -Increase the left and right margins
Chapter 2 - Answers -
If cell E15 contains the function =PMT(B$15/12,C7*12,-D8), what type of cell reference
is B$15? - Answers -Mixed reference
What function would most efficiently accomplish the same thing as
=(B5+C5+D5+E5+F5)? - Answers -=SUM(B5:F5)
When you start to type =AV, what feature displays a list of functions and defined
names? - Answers -Formula AutoComplete
A formula containing the entry =J$7 is copied to a cell three columns to the right and
four rows down. How will the entry display in its new location? - Answers -=M$7
Which of the following functions should be used to insert the current date and time in a
cell? - Answers -=TODAY()
Which of the following is not a comparison operator? - Answers -&
Which of the following is not true about the VLOOKUP function? - Answers -The lookup
table must be in descending order.
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