a) Which state had the greatest number of federally insured bank closings

between 2000 and 2012?

GA – 80

b) How many bank closings occurred in the state of Nevada (NV) in 2010? In
what cities did these bank closings occur?
4 Bank closings in Nevada during 2010, 1 in Carson City, 2 in Las Vegas, and 1 in
Reno.

c) Use the PivotTable’s filter capability to view only bank closings in

California (CA), Florida (FL), Texas (TX), and New York (NY) for the years 2009
through 2012. What is the total number of bank closings in these states between
2009 and 2012?
CA – 33
FL – 58
TX – 7
NY – 4
Total = 102
d) Using the filtered PivotTable from part c, what city in Florida had the
greatest number of bank closings between 2009 and 2012? How many bank
closings occurred in this city?
Naples, FL – 4

e) Create a PivotChart to display a column chart that shows the total number
of bank closings in each year from 2000 through 2012 in the state of Florida.
Adjust the formatting of this column chart so that it best conveys the data. What
does this column chart suggest about bank closings between 2000 and 2012 in
Florida? Discuss.

There were no bank closings in Florida during the years 2000 – 2001, 2003, and 2005 – 2007. The
closings have peaked in 2009 – 2010 but continued to decline after.