Cost Analysis of Companies Research Assignment
- New Quarterback
Narrative:
Your team needs a new quarterback. You want to recruit one with a completion percentage of 60% or more AND more than 3500 yards. You would also recruit any that have 20 or more touchdowns AND less than 12 interceptions. In either case, they must be a free agent in 2016. Questions:
- Add columns as needed and create logical functions to identify prospects. (1.5 points)
- Sort so that the selected quarterbacks are listed first with a second sort by number of yards. (0.5 points)
- Add conditional formatting to identify desirable results in each column. (0.5 points)
- Exercise Equipment
Narrative: You have been working for the sales department for M&M Co. The company sells online exercise equipment. In addition to the cost of the equipment, customers are charged for shipping/delivery. M&M also provides its preferred customers some discount. You have been asked to help in determining the cost of each equipment sold to every customer. Questions:
- Modify and fix the formatting on this spreadsheet, which shows sales of exercise equipment. (0.5 points)
- Add additional info to this spreadsheet so that all other formulas can use cell references. a. Add $40 for delivery charge if applicable b. Preferred customers will get $50 off any item over $900 c. State sales tax is 7%
- Use an excel function to calculate the product cost (including delivery and preferred customer discount). (1 points)
- Use excel formulas to calculate tax (0.5 points)
- Use excel formulas to calculate total cost. (0.5 points)
- Used Cars
Narrative: Hello Motors Co. serves the community in South Bend area by buying unwanted cars, fixing them, and reselling them to the public. Hello Motors determines the selling price of a car by calculating how much money they have put into the vehicle, and then marking up the price by a certain percent. This percent is determined by the year when the car was manufactured (see the small table below the big one). Questions: 1. Create excel formulas that will calculate the markup percent and price of each car. (2 points: 1 point for each)
- Wood
Narrative: Advances in science have allowed us to answer an age-old question. Studies show the amount of wood that marmota monax can chuck is dependent on its (a) sex, (b) weight and (c) mood.
Ø Sleepy woodchucks can throw half their body weight. Ø Confused woodchucks can throw their own body weight. Ø Irate Male woodchucks can throw twice their body weight. Ø Irate Female woodchucks can throw 3.5 times their body weight. Based on the amount of wood thrown, scientists classify woodchucks as approachable, adorable, or deadly. Ø Approachable woodchucks throw less than 4 lbs. Ø Adorable woodchucks throw between 4 and 15 lbs. Ø Deadly woodchucks throw over 15 lbs.
Questions:
- Create IF functions which use cell references to calculate the weight of wood chucked for each of our woodchucks. (2 points)
- Create IF functions which use cell references to calculate the designation for each of our woodchucks. (1 points)