Year 7 – Spreadsheets Learner activity sheet

Lesson 5 – Level up your data skills

Homework — Plastic cleanup report

Name: Date due:

Revision sheet: Plastic bottle collection report

You are creating a report on a plastic cleanup in your region. A sample of the data you
have been given is shown below. Notice that you have not yet received data for some of
the zones.

A B C D
1 Zone Number of bottles
2 101 42
3 102 15
4 103 30
5 104 29
6 105
7 106 16
8 107
9 108
10 109 7
11 110 57
12 111 19

Question 1
Write out the full text that you would enter into a cell to find out each of the following
using functions in a spreadsheet.

The total number of bottles collected in all the zones sum(B2:B12)

combined:
max(B2:B12)
The most bottles collected in any zone:

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min(B1:B12)
The fewest number of bottles collected in any zone:

counta(B2:B12)
The number of zones you have received data for:

average
The average number of bottles collected per zone:

The number of zones in which more than 20 bottles were

collected: countif(B2:B12”>20”)

Question 2
In column C, you want to show the text “More recycle bins needed” next to zones in
which more than 20 bottles were collected, and “OK” otherwise.
What would you enter into the cells in Column C to achieve this? Take row 2 as an
example, and write out what you would put in the cell C2.

Answer:
IF(B2:B12>20”More recycle bins needed”, “ok”)

Example result:
A B C
1 Zone Number of bottles
2 101 42 More recycle bins needed
3 102 15 OK
4 103 30 More recycle bins needed

Question 3
The number in column B represents how many bottles were collected in one month. In
column D, estimate the numbers for a whole year if this many bottles were to be
collected every month.

What would you enter into the cells in Column D to achieve this? Take row 2 as an
example and write out what you would put in the cell D2.

Answer:

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=(B2*12) And then drag

Example result:

A B C D
1 Zone Number of bottles
2 101 42 504
3 102 15 180
4 103 30 360

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