Practice Sheet 2

Q1.
You are thinking of advertising Microsoft products on a sports telecast. As you buy more ads, the price of each
ad drops as described in the following table.

Number of Ads Price Per Ad

1-5 $12,000
6-10 $11,000
11-20 $10,000
More than 20 $9,000

For example, if you buy 8 ads, you pay $11,000 per ad, but if you buy 14 ads, you pay $10,000 per ad. Write a
formula that yields the total cost of purchasing any number of ads.

Q2.

i. Use the INDEX function to compute the distance between LA and Phoenix and between Denver and
Miami.
ii. Use the INDEX function to compute the total distance from Dallas to all cities.
iii. Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks are embarking on a road trip that takes them from Chicago, to
Denver to Los Angeles to Phoenix, and to Seattle. How many miles will they travel on this road trip?

Q3.

Cells B2:B5 of the workbook given above contain the fictitious addresses of some of our favorite people, as
shown here. Use text functions to extract each person’s name to a single column and each person’s street
address to a single column.
Q4.

The file TextStylesData.xls contains information about the size, color, and style for a variety of shirts. For
example, the first shirt is style 100 (indicated by digits between the colon and the hyphen). Its color is 65, and
its size is L. Use text functions to extract the style, color, and size of each shirt.