7. 🧪 Practice Exercises - rafageist/book-spreadsheet-basics GitHub Wiki

This section provides hands-on activities to help you apply what you’ve learned. You don’t need advanced skills — just follow each step and try things out!

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📋 Exercise 1: Grocery List Total

1. Open your spreadsheet tool
2. Create a table like this:

Item	Price	Quantity
Bread	2.50	2
Milk	3.00	1
Apples	0.75	6

3. Add a Total column: =Price * Quantity
4. Use SUM() to calculate the final amount

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📋 Exercise 2: Temperature Tracker

1. Create a table to track daily temperatures

Day	Temperature
Monday	29
Tuesday	31
Wednesday	28

2. Use AVERAGE() to calculate the weekly average
3. Use MAX() and MIN() to find the highest and lowest temperature

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📋 Exercise 3: Simple Budget Table

Category	Amount
Rent	300
Food	150
Transport	50
Savings	100

1. Calculate the total expenses
2. Use cell styles to highlight each category
3. Create a pie chart to visualize the budget

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🧠 Tips

• Don’t worry about making mistakes — you learn by trying
• Explore the toolbar to format your table and improve presentation
• Save your work and compare with classmates if possible

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