Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Business Computing

Assignment1

(Submit on or before 26/07/17)

1. From the given data about the total US sales (which is computed in a cell as the sum of East, North, and South
regional sales), extract East, North, and South sales to separate cells E, F and G. (worksheet1)
2. For the given worksheet in which each cell contains a product description, a product ID (left most 12 Chars), and a
product price (right most 6 characters). Arrange all the product descriptions in column G, all the product IDs in
column H, and all the prices in column I. (worksheet2)
3. Cells B2:B5 of worksheet3 contain the fictitious addresses of some people. Use text functions to extract each
person’s name to one column and each person’s street address to another.
4. The worksheet4 contains quarterly GNP data for the United States (in billions of 1996 dollars). Extract this data to
three columns so that the first column contains the year, the second column contains the quarter number, and the
third column contains the GNP.
5. The worksheet5 contains information about the style, color, and size of 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.
6. The worksheet6 gives first and last names of several new IIMK employees. To create an email address for each
employee, follow the first letter of the employee’s first name by the employee’s last name and add
@iimk.ac.in to the end. Use text functions to create the email addresses efficiently.
7. The worksheet7 gives the first names, middle names or initials, and last names of several people. Transform these
names so that the last name appears first, followed by a comma, and then followed by the first and middle names
(your name too at the end). For example, transform Gregory William Winston into Winston, Gregory William.
8. The worksheet8 contains the names of several movies followed by the number of copies of the movie DVD
purchased by a local video store. For each movie, extract the number of copies purchased from this data. Hint:
You may use the SUBSTITUTE function.
9. The worksheet9 contains the number of people who responded 1–5 on a marketing questionnaire (1 = Very
unlikely to buy product, . . . , 5 = Very likely to buy product). Summarize this data graphically by using the
asterisk symbol. To make your summary look more appealing, make the text vertical. Adjust the row height and
choose Wrap Text.
10. The Blue Yonder Airlines flight from Seattle to New York has a capacity of 250 people. The airline sold 270 tickets for
the flight at a price of $300 per ticket. Tickets are nonrefundable. The variable cost of flying a passenger (mostly food
costs and fuel costs) is $30 per passenger. If more than 250 people show up for the flight, the flight is overbooked,
and Blue Yonder must pay overbooking compensation of $350 per person to each overbooked passenger. Develop a
worksheet that computes Blue Yonder’s profit based on the number of customers who show up for the flight.
(worksheet10)
11. The drug company is producing a new drug. The company has made the following assumptions: During Year 1,
100,000 units will be sold. Sales will grow for three years and then decline for seven years. During the growth period,
sales will grow at a rate of 15 percent per year. During the decline, sales will drop at a rate of 10 percent per year.
Develop a worksheet that uses the values for Year 1 sales, the length of the growth cycle, the length of the decline
cycle, the growth rate during the growth cycle, and the rate of decrease during the decline cycle to compute unit
sales for Years 1–11. (worksheet11)
12. The Fibonacci sequence is defined as follows: FN+1 = FN + FN-1, where N >0. F0=0 and F1=1. Set up worksheet12 to
compute the Fibonacci sequence up to F100. Show that for large N, the ratio of successive Fibonacci numbers
approaches the Golden Ration of 1.61.
13. The worksheet13 gives a list of names. Some names occur more than once. Determine the row in which, for
example, the second occurrence of the name “Dave” occurs. Set up a worksheet in which you can enter a person’s
name and a positive integer (such as n) and it returns the row in which the name occurs for the nth time.
14. The worksheet14 gives some sales data. What is the total dollar amount of merchandise sold by each salesperson?
How many units were returned? What is the total dollar amount of sales in or after 2005? How many units of lip
gloss were sold? How much revenue did lip gloss sales bring in? What is the total dollar amount of sales by
someone other than Jen? What is the average number of units sold in each transaction by a specific salesperson?
What is the total dollar amount of lipstick sold by Jen? What is the average quantity (in units) of lipstick in each
sale by Zaret? Among transactions involving at least 50 units, what is the average quantity of lipstick in each sale
by Zaret? Among transactions of more than $100, what is the total dollar amount of lipstick sold by Jen? What is the
total dollar amount from transactions of less than $100?
15. The worksheet15 contains sales revenue (in millions of dollars) during each quarter for the years 1997–2001 and
the first two quarters of 2002. Use this data to compute a seasonal index for each quarter of the year. For
example, if average sales during the first quarter were 80 percent of the overall average sales per quarter, the first
quarter would have a seasonal index of 0.8.
16. The worksheet16 contains sales data during several winter, spring, summer, and fall quarters. Determine
average sales during the winter, spring, summer, and fall quarters.
17. The worksheet17 gives employee ID codes, salaries, and years of experience. Write a formula that yields the
employee’s salary from a given ID code. Write another formula that yields the employee’s years of experience from a
given ID code.
18. The worksheet18 gives the assignment of workers to four groups. The suitability of each worker for each group (on
a scale from 0 to 10) is also given. Write a formula that gives the suitability of each worker for the group to which the
worker is assigned.
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22. A resident of Dallas, Texas, is embarking on a road trip that takes her to Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix,
and Seattle. How many miles will she travel on this trip? (worksheet22)
23. The worksheet23 contains monthly sales for six products. Use the INDEX function to compute the sales of
Product 2 in March. Use the INDEX function to compute total sales during April.
24. The worksheet24 lists the dollar amounts of 30 transactions in chronological order. Write a formula that yields
the first transaction for which total volume to date exceeds $10,000.
25. The worksheet25 gives the amount of time between bus arrivals (in minutes) at 45th Street and Park Avenue in
New York City. Write a formula that, for any arrival time after the first bus, gives the amount of time you have to
wait for a bus. For example, if you arrive 12.4 minutes from now, and buses arrive 5 minutes and 21 minutes from
now, you wait 21 – 12.4 = 8.6 minutes for a bus.