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1. How to write a formula to compute tax rates based on income?

Calculate for the following income

Income
-1000
30000
29000
98000
104000

2. Suppose that a product’s price changes over time. The date when the
product was sold is given. How to write a formula to compute the
product’s price?

Calculate price for the following dates:

Date
04-01-2005
10-05-2005
12-09-2005
01-05-2005
05-08-2005

3. Write a function that returns the distance between:

Seattle and Phoenix
Phoenix and LA
LA and Denver
Denver and Dallas
 Boston Chicago Dallas Denver LA Miami Phoenix Seattle
1 Boston 0 983 1815 1991 3036 1539 2664 2612
2 Chicago 983 0 1205 1050 2112 1390 1729 2052
3 Dallas 1815 1205 0 801 1425 1332 1027 2404
4 Denver 1991 1050 801 0 1174 1332 836 1373
5 LA 3036 2112 1425 1174 0 2757 398 1909
6 Miami 1539 1390 1332 1332 2757 0 2359 3389
7 Phoenix 2664 1729 1027 836 398 2359 0 1482
8 Seattle 2612 2052 2404 1373 1909 3389 1482 0

4. Given monthly sales for several products, how to write a formula that
will calculate the sales of a product during a given month? For example,
how much of product 2 was sold during June?

January February March April May June

Shaq 831 685 550 965 842 804
Kobe 719 504 965 816 639 814
MJ 916 906 851 912 964 710
T-Mac 844 509 991 851 742 817

5. Given a list of baseball player salaries, how to write a formula that

yields the player with the highest salary? How about the player with the
fifth highest salary?

1 dl-Mo Vaughn 13166667

2 Tim Salmon 5683013
3 Garret Anderson 4500000
4 Darin Erstad 3450000
5 Troy Percival 3400000
6 Ismael Valdes 2500000
7 Pat Rapp 2000000
8 Glenallen Hill 1500000
9 Troy Glaus 1250000
Shigetoshi
10 Hasegawa 1150000
11 Scott Spiezio 1125000
12 Orlando Palmeiro 900000
13 Alan Levine 715000
14 Mike Holtz 705000
15 Jorge Fabregas 500000
16 Benji Gil 350000
17 Ben Molina 350000
18 dl-Gary DiSarcina 320000
19 dl-Adam Kennedy 280000
20 Scott Schoeneweis 275000
21 dl-Kimera Bartee 270000
22 dl-Jarrod Washburn 270000
23 Ramon Ortiz 250000
24 Jose Nieves 232000
25 Lou Pote 215000
26 Matthew Wise 207500
27 Ben Weber 203500
28 Shawn Wooten 200500
29 David Eckstein 200000
30 dl-Rendy Espina 200000
31 Wally Joyner 200000
32 dl-Albert Belle 12049040
33 David Segui 6658731
34 Brady Anderson 6536612
35 Scott Erickson 6300921
36 Mike Bordick 4311622
37 Delino Deshields 4209324
38 Pat Hentgen 4123245
39 Jeff Conine 3000000
40 dl-Alan Mills 3000000
41 Jose Mercedes 2750000
42 Mike Trombley 2333333
43 Sidney Ponson 2100000
44 Buddy Groom 2000000
45 Chuck McElroy 1550000
46 Brook Fordyce 1225000
47 Greg Myers 1200000
48 Jason Johnson 350000
49 Melvin Mora 270000
50 Jerry Hairston 235000
51 Chris Richard 232500
52 Ryan Kohlmeier 230000
53 dl-Luis Matos 226000
54 Mike Kinkade 215000
55 B.J. Ryan 210000
56 Fernando Lunar 205000
57 dl-Luis Rivera 205000
58 Jay Gibbons 200000
59 Matthew Riley 200000
60 Manny Ramirez 13033075
61 Pedro Martinez 13000000
62 Carl Everett 7333333
dl-Nomar
63 Garciaparra 7250000
64 Dante Bichette 7000000
65 Jose Offerman 6750000
66 dl-John Valentin 6350000
67 Mike Lansing 6250000
68 Troy O'Leary 4600000
69 Rod Beck 4500000
70 Hideo Nomo 4500000
71 dl-Bret Saberhagen 4500000
72 Tim Wakefield 3000000
73 Darren Lewis 2500000
74 Frank Castillo 2250000
75 Derek Lowe 2125000
 76 Jason Varitek 1800000
77 dl-Hipolito Pichardo 1680000
78 Rolando Arrojo 1625000
79 dl-Bryce Florie 1450000
80 Rich Garces 1375000
81 Chris Stynes 1300000
82 Scott Hatteberg 1050000
83 dl-David Cone 1000000
84 Pete Schourek 1000000
85 Craig Grebeck 700000
86 Brian Daubach 400000
87 Trot Nixon 390000
88 Tomokazu Ohka 225000
89 dl-Juan Pena 222500
90 Paxton Crawford 200000
91 Shea Hillenbrand 200000
92 Frank Thomas 9927000
93 David Wells 9250000
94 dl-James Baldwin 5950000
95 Ray Durham 5900000
96 Jose Valentin 5000000
97 Royce Clayton 4500000
98 Magglio Ordonez 3750000
99 Keith Foulke 3100000
100 Paul Konerko 2300000
101 dl-Billy Simas 1925000
102 Antonio Osuna 1500000
103 Harold Baines 1000000
104 Herbert Perry 975000
105 Cal Eldred 750000
106 Jim Parque 550000
107 Carlos Lee 400000
108 Tony Graffanino 375000
109 Bobby Howry 375000
110 Chris Singleton 315000
111 Sean Lowe 300000
112 Kelly Wunsch 260000
113 Josh Paul 230000
114 Mark Buehrle 225000
115 Lee Biddle 205000
116 Julio Ramirez 201000
117 Gary Glover 200000
118 Juan Gonzalez 10000000
119 Chuck Finley 8911948
120 Jim Thome 8175000
121 Kenny Lofton 8000000
122 Roberto Alomar 7342698
123 dl-Charles Nagy 6000000
124 dl-Travis Fryman 5750000
125 Ellis Burks 5666667
126 Dave Burba 5000000
127 Omar Vizquel 3000000
128 Steve Karsay 2700000
129 Wil Cordero 2666667
130 Bartolo Colon 2625000
131 Bob Wickman 2600000
132 dl-Jaret Wright 2562500
133 Paul Shuey 2000000
134 Eddie Taubensee 1800000
135 Steve Reed 1600000
136 Ricardo Rincon 1500000
137 Steve Woodard 1325000
138 Marty Cordova 600000
139 Einar Diaz 387500
140 Justin Speier 243000
141 Jolbert Cabrera 237000
142 Jacob Cruz 230000
143 Russell Branyan 219000
144 dl-David Roberts 214000
145 John McDonald 209000
dl-Cameron
146 Cairncross 208000
147 Timothy Drew 202000
148 dl-Dean Palmer 7500000
149 Bobby Higginson 5325000
150 Dave Mlicki 5300000
151 Damion Easley 5250000
152 Tony Clark 4662500
153 Todd Jones 3975000
154 Deivi Cruz 3525000
155 Roger Cedeno 2700000
156 Brian Moehler 2416667
157 Chris Holt 1850000
158 C.J. Nitkowski 1200000
159 Danny Patterson 1100000
160 Steve Sparks 650000
161 Juan Encarnacion 440000
162 Jeff Weaver 425000
163 Shane Halter 420000
164 Matt Anderson 355000
165 dl-Mitch Meluskey 345000
166 Wendell Magree 275000
167 Billy McMillon 260000
168 Robert Fick 255000
169 Matt Perisho 255000
170 Ryan Jackson 250000
171 dl-Seth Greisinger 240000
172 Jose Macias 240000
173 Javier Cardona 217000
174 Jermaine Clark 200000
175 Brandon Inge 200000
176 Roberto Hernandez 6000000
177 Mike Sweeney 5000000
178 Jermaine Dye 3800000
179 dl-Jose Rosado 3250000
180 Jeff Suppan 2350000
181 Joe Randa 2300000
182 Rey Sanchez 2300000
183 Brian Meadows 1900000
184 Doug Henry 1200000
185 dl-Gregg Zaun 1150000
186 Luis Alicea 800000
187 Jason Grimsley 750000
188 Dave McCarty 750000
189 Carlos Beltran 425000
190 Mac Suzuki 320000
191 Carlos Febles 310000
192 Mark Quinn 280000
193 Blake Stein 275000
194 Dan Reichert 265000
195 A.J. Hinch 260000
196 Jose Santiago 260000
197 Luis Ordaz 235000
198 Hector Ortiz 235000
199 Chad Durbin 211500
200 Dee Brown 205000
201 Kris Wilson 205000
202 dl-Scott Mullen 204000
203 dl-Orber Moreno 202500
204 Tony Cogan 200000
205 Brad Radke 7750000
206 Matt Lawton 3900000
207 Eric Milton 2150000
208 Eddie Guardado 1800000
209 Latroy Hawkins 1450000
210 Bob Wells 1100000
211 Denny Hocking 900000
212 Corey Koskie 500000
213 Hector Carrasco 400000
214 Tom Prince 400000
215 Cristian Guzman 325000
216 Jacque Jones 275000
217 Joe Mays 260000
218 David Ortiz 260000
219 Travis Miller 255000
220 Torri Hunter 250000
221 John Allen 240000
222 dl-Jay Canizaro 235000
223 Mark Redman 235000
224 Jason Maxwell 215000
225 Doug Mientkiewicz 215000
226 Johan Santana 212500
227 A.J. Pierzynski 210000
228 Juan Romero 207500
229 Brian Buchanan 205000
230 dl-John Barnes 200000
231 Luis Rivas 200000
232 dl-Derek Jeter 12600000
233 Bernie Williams 12357143
234 Roger Clemens 10300000
235 Mike Mussina 10000000
236 Mariano Rivera 9150000
237 David Justice 7000000
238 Andy Pettitte 7000000
239 Paul O'Neill 6500000
240 Chuck Knoblauch 6000000
241 Tino Martinez 6000000
242 Scott Brosius 5250000
243 Jorge Posada 4050000
244 Mike Stanton 2450000
245 Orlando Hernandez 2050000
246 dl-Allen Watson 1700000
247 dl-Ramiro Mendoza 1600000
248 Joe Oliver 1100000
249 dl-Henry Rodriguez 850000
250 Alfonso Soriano 630000
251 Luis Sojo 500000
252 Brian Boehringer 350000
253 dl-Shane Spencer 320000
254 Todd Williams 320000
255 Carlos Almanzar 270000
256 Clay Bellinger 230000
257 dl-Darrell Einertson 206000
258 Randy Choate 204750
259 Michael Coleman 204000
260 D'Angelo Jimenez 200000
261 Christian Parker 200000
262 Scott Seabol 200000
263 Johnny Damon 7100000
264 Jason Giambi 4103333
265 Gil Heredia 3300000
266 Jason Isringhausen 3300000
267 dl-John Jaha 3250000
268 Miguel Tejada 2025000
269 T.J. Mathews 1900000
270 Mark Guthrie 1800000
271 Jim Mecir 1116667
272 Mike Magnante 900000
273 Eric Chavez 625000
274 Tim Hudson 525000
275 Sal Fasano 375000
276 Jeff Tam 350000
277 Robin Jennings 290000
278 Olmedo Saenz 290000
279 Jeremy Giambi 282500
280 Ryan Christenson 267500
281 Ramon Hernandez 245000
282 Terrence Long 240750
283 Barry Zito 240000
284 Mark Mulder 232500
285 Frank Menechino 225000
286 Adam Piatt 217500
287 Mario Valdez 205000
288 dl-Chad Harville 204000
289 Jose Ortiz 201000
290 Aaron Sele 7500000
291 John Olerud 6700000
292 Jamie Moyer 6500000
293 Ichiro Suzuki 5695000
294 Edgar Martinez 5500000
295 Kazuhiro Sasaki 5070000
296 Al Martin 5000000
297 Dan Wilson 4400000
298 Mike Cameron 3416667
299 Jeff Nelson 3333333
300 Bret Boone 3250000
301 Arthur Rhodes 3250000
302 David Bell 2200000
303 Mark McLemore 2000000
304 dl-Jay Buhner 1850000
305 Paul Abbott 1700000
306 dl-Chris Widger 1700000
307 Stan Javier 1500000
308 Tom Lampkin 1100000
309 Brett Tomko 1100000
310 Jose Paniagua 837500
311 Freddy Garcia 425000
312 John Halama 425000
313 Carlos Guillen 285000
314 dl-Gil Meche 275000
315 Charles Gipson 235000
316 Ryan Franklin 202500
317 Anthony Sanders 202500
318 dl-Wilson Alvarez 9000000
319 Greg Vaughn 7479409
320 Vinny Castilla 7250000
321 Fred McGriff 5973991
322 dl-Juan Guzman 5620316
323 Albie Lopez 2975000
324 Gerald Williams 2873439
325 Ben Grieve 2750000
326 John Flaherty 2724447
327 Brian Rekar 1400000
328 Jose Guillen 975000
329 Mike Difelice 835000
330 Ken Hill 750000
331 Ariel Prieto 700000
332 Esteban Yan 650000
333 Paul Wilson 350000
334 Russ Johnson 270000
335 Doug Creek 260000
336 Randy Winn 260000
337 Steve Cox 255000
338 Felix Martinez 255000
339 Bobby Smith 255000
340 Ryan Rupe 242500
341 Tanyon Sturtze 237500
342 Mike Judd 208000
343 Travis Harper 202000
344 Damian Rolls 200000
345 Alex Rodriguez 22000000
346 Rafael Palmeiro 8620921
347 Ivan Rodriguez 8600000
348 Kenny Rogers 7500000
349 Darren Oliver 7000000
350 Andres Galarraga 6000000
351 Rusty Greer 4500000
352 Rick Helling 4500000
353 Ken Caminiti 3250000
354 Randy Velarde 3150000
355 Mark Petkovsek 2050000
356 Chad Curtis 2000000
357 dl-Justin Thompson 1420000
358 Tim Crabtree 1400000
359 Frank Catalanotto 850000
360 dl-Bill Haselman 800000
361 Jeff Brantley 650000
362 Pat Mahomes 500000
363 dl-Gabe Kapler 450000
364 dl-Ricky Ledee 406500
365 Mike Venafro 310000
366 Jeff Zimmerman 307500
367 Ruben Mateo 300000
368 Doug Mirabelli 295000
dl-Francisco
369 Cordero 277500
370 Scott Sheldon 265000
371 Doug Davis 250000
372 Ryan Glynn 240000
373 Bo Porter 207000
374 Jonathan Johnson 202500
375 dl-Danny Kolb 202500
376 Carlos Delgado 12200000
377 Raul Mondesi 11500000
378 Joey Hamilton 7250000
379 Esteban Loaiza 4250000
380 Darrin Fletcher 3525000
381 Tony Batista 3300000
382 dl-Mike Sirotka 3000000
383 Chris Carpenter 2583333
384 Homer Bush 2550000
385 Brad Fullmer 2500000
386 Steve Parris 2275000
387 Dan Plesac 2200000
388 Shannon Stewart 2183333
389 Paul Quantrill 2100000
390 Pedro Borbon 1550000
391 Kelvim Escobar 1500000
392 dl-Jeff Frye 1000000
393 Lance Painter 1000000
394 Billy Koch 733333
395 Alberto Castillo 725000
396 Brian Simmons 225000
397 Kevin Beirne 223000
398 Chris Woodward 223000
399 dl-Andy Thompson 202500
400 Ryan Freel 200000
401 Chris Michalek 200000
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Result Sheet of XYZ class

Student Student exam exam exam exam

names id 1 2 3 4
w 2 94 74 89 90
x 1 93 60 57 80
y 3 80 55 75 65
z 6 95 94 90 90
t 7 56 45 60 60
e 8 40 45 50 55
r 9 55 60 56 65
f 10 67 70 40 65
h 11 40 60 57 65
j 12 50 53 54 57

1 Calculate Average marks obtained by a student.

2 Enter the weights information given below in the cells. This will
establish the weight each exam is given in a student's final average.
Weights
.3
.3
.3
.1
Calculate the final average for the students taking the weights into
consideration.
3 Calculate grades on the final average based on the following criteria:
80 & above : A+
70 – 79 : A
60 – 69 : A-
50 – 59 : B
40 – 49 : B-
<40 : F

4 Make a column chart for the grades.

5 Sort the data grade wise and within same grades sort names
alphabetically.