Microsoft Excel
Basic formulae exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Excel BASIC FORMULAE exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Tallest building statistics

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-148.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Add an additional column heading to this file in F1, to read Average height of each storey.
3) Calculate this statistic for each building, by creating a formula for the first one and copying it down. 
4) At the bottom of your worksheet, calculate the statistics shown below:
Exercise screen-shot 206 These use MIN and MAX functions
5) Would you rather stay at the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea or the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh?
6) Save this workbook as Building Statistics.xls, and close it down.

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