Excel Test, Fall 2002
For this test you will produce a power point presentation. You will need to
use excel to produce most of the slides.
When you are finished, please print out the slide show 6 slides per page.
- Title Slide
- Title: Test 2
- Sub Title:
- Your Name
- The start time of your class
- Fall 2002
- First Slide: Purchasing A Car
- Insert the spread sheet described below in normal mode,
- Cell B9 should contain Poor
- Cell B11 should contain 5
- Cell E8 should contain 10,000
- Cell E9 should contain Summit
- Cell E12 should contain 1,000
- Cell E13 should contain 400
- Second Slide: Purchasing A Car
Paste a copy of the first slide, but in formula mode.
- Third Slide: What Can you Afford
- Use the Goal Seek Command to find how much car a person can
afford if
- They live in Wayne County
- They have a trade in worth $500
- They have a $300 other value
- The have a good credit rating
- They want to finance the car for 4 years.
- Find The vehicle pirice for a monthly payment of
- Last Slide: Gratuitous Chart
- Make An exploded pie chart out of the table in A1 through B5
- Explode out the entry for Summit County only.
The spreadsheet
- In Column A and B, Rows 1 through 5 enter the following table:
County | Tax Rate |
Portage | 1.75% |
Summit | 2.50% |
Trumbull | 2.00% |
Wayne | 1.00% |
Portage | 1.75% |
- In Column D and E, rows 1 through 4 enter the following table:
Credit Rating | Interest Rate |
Fair | 8.50% |
Good | 7.00% |
Poor | 10.00% |
- In A8 put the constant "Name", color this cell green
- In A9 put the constant "Credit Rating", color this cell green as well
- In A10 put "Interest Rate"
- In A11 put "Period"
- Enter a your name in B8
- Enter "Good" in B9
- use vlookup and the chart D1:E4 along with B9 to fill in the interest rate in B10
- Put a 5 in B11
- Put "Cost of Car" in D8, color this cell green
- Put "County" in D9, color this cell green
- Put "Tax Rate" in D10
- Put "Sales Tax" in D11
- Put "Trade In" in D12, color this cell green.
- Put "Other" in D13, color this cell green.
- Put 10,000 in E8
- Put "Summit" in E9
- Use Vlookup on the table A1:B5 and the county in E9 to find the tax rate in cell E10, Add 6% to the value looked up in the table.
- Calculate the sales tax: Price of Car times Tax Rate in E11
- Put 1,000 in E12
- Put 400 in E13
- Put "Total Financed" in A15
- Put "Monthly Payment" in A16
- Calculate the total Financed in B15 (Cost + sales tax - trade in - other)
- Calculate the monthly payment in B16
Note, when finding values for the slide show, only change the cells associated with labels in green.
My Slides look something like:
- Title:
- Slide 1:
- Slide 2: Omitted
- Slide 3:
- Slide 4: