MS‐Excel Practice Exercise 1

You are about to work with some data taken from a real estate agency that is renting different
types of properties to customers. This agency has estate agents through whom rent contracts
are negotiated and signed. Customers are entitled for discounts if their total contract amount
exceeds a certain limit.

1. Download and open the “Excel Class Exercise 1 - Data” file. Save it on your desktop as
“Exercise1_yourName_ID”

2. Add a new sheet, name it “Student Data”, and make sure you place it as the first sheet.
Enter your name in cell A1, your student number in cell A2 and enter a function to fill
today’s date in cell A3 (search for a function that does this!). Ensure that all the data is
shown properly (adjust cells’ width).

3. Go to the “RentsData” Sheet and do the following:

a. Add a new first column with the header “Transaction ID”. Using the Autofill feature,
enumerate the rent transactions starting from value 201,202 ..etc.
b. Format the column headers to appear in bold on a light green background.
c. Format the data in columns “Monthly Rent”, “Sub‐total”, “Total” to Qatari Riyal
currency with no decimal places.
d. Fill up the “Sub‐total” column using an appropriate formula. The sub‐total should
equal to the monthly rent amount multiplied by the number of rental months.
e. Fill up the “Has Discount?” column with either “Yes” or “No”. Customers are
entitled for a discount if their rent sub‐total exceeds (greater than) or equals QAR
100,000 (value from P4 (use absolute reference for this).
f. Using Nested IF (if inside if), Fill up the “Discount” column with the suitable
discount rates according to the table in cells O4:Q5 (use absolute reference for this).
g. Fill up the “Total” column with the total amount to pay after applying the
corresponding discount rate on the sub‐total.
h. Calculate the total, average, maximum, minimum of Monthly rent in column (F: F)
in cells P23, P24, P25 and P26.

4. Using conditional formatting, do the following:

a. Highlight the cells from the “Total” column having values higher than QAR
150,000. Use the light green fill with green fill with dark green text to highlight
the cells.
b. Highlight the cells from the “Total” column having values lower than QAR 30,000.
Use the light red fill with dark red text to highlight the cells.

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5. Use the necessary operations to answer the following questions:
a) How many rent transactions were done by the agent Maha? (put answer in
cell R12)
b) How many rent transactions were done by the agent Maha at capital
region? (put answer in cell R13)
c) What is the total value (Column K) of rents at the Capital region? (put
answer in cell R14)
d) What is the total value (Column K) of rents Maha did in the North region?
(put answer in cell R15)
e) What is the average value (Column K) of rents at the West region? (put
answer in cell R16)
f) What is the average value (Column K) of rents at the West region which was
done by agent “Akram”? (put answer in cell R17)
g) How many transactions were done for Duration= 6 months? (put answer in
cell R18)
h) How many transactions were done for a monthly rent>4500? (put answer in
cell R19)

6. Use the necessary function to find the monthly rent amount for the property type
“studio”, “Deluxe Villa” and “Family Villa” and put your answer in cells P8, P9, P10
respectively

7. Copy the “RentsData” sheet. Name the new sheet as “Filtered Rents Data”, select it and
do the following:
a. Apply a filter so that only rents done by agent “Ahmad” and region “Center”
are displayed.
b. Sort the data by total in a descending order (From largest to smallest).

8. Insert a Clustered Column Chart for Property Type and Total Rent columns. Title the
chart as “Total Rents by Property Type for Agent Ahmad in the Center”. Make sure
that your chart looks like the below chart.

9. Move the chart to a new sheet and name it “Chart Data”.

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 Total Rents by Property Type for Agent Ahmad
in the Center
QAR 250,000

QAR 202,500
QAR 200,000 QAR 194,400

QAR 153,900
QAR 150,000
QAR 119,700
QAR 99,750
QAR 100,000
QAR 81,000
QAR 69,000

QAR 50,000 QAR 34,500

QAR 0
Deluxe Villa Family Villa 2-bedroom 1-bedroom 1-bedroom 2-bedroom Penthouse Penthouse
Flat Flat Flat Flat

***** End of Exercise *****