Division and Percentages:

Excel Exercise

Excel is a powerful tool that you will see in courses after PathwayConnect and in many jobs. It is important to begin learning how to use excel now. The following video will show you how to use excel to do the types of calculations you've been learning about in your math lessons. Try opening excel on your own computer to follow along:

Video Source (01:59 mins) | Transcript

Practice Problems

Use excel to evaluate the following expressions:

  1. 20.5 + 31.26 = ?
  2. 20.5 × 31.26 = ?
  3. 1214.4 ÷ 8 = ?
  4. 3.2 − 31 = ?
  5. -31 ÷ 8 = ?
  6. \(6^{2}\) = ?

Solutions

  1. 51.76 (Enter this in Excel as: = 20.5 + 31.26)
  2. 640.83 (Solution Video | Transcript)
  3. 151.8 (Solution Video | Transcript)
  4. \(-27.8\) (Enter this in Excel as: = 3.2 − 31)
  5. \(-3.875\) (Enter this in Excel as: = \(-31\) ÷ 8)
  6. 36 (Enter this in Excel as: = 6^2)