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Download the file exped.xls from the book's Web site and open it with MS Excel, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice Spreadsheet. This file is a sample of 1000 sales transactions for the Expeditioner. For each sale, there is a row recording when it was sold, where it was sold, what was sold, how it was sold, the quantity sold, and the sales revenue. Use Microsoft's PivotTable (Data>PivotTable Report), OpenOffice's DataPilot (Data>DataPilot>Start), LibreOffice's Pivot Table (Data>Pivot Table >Create) to produce the following report: Sum of REVENUE HOW WHERE London New York Paris Sydney Tokyo Grand Total Catalog Store Web Grand Total 214,334 39,123 143,303 29,989 56,716 483,465 50,310 151,015 13,009 8,712 28,060 2,351 32,166 104,083 7,054 5,471 21,769 2,749 12,103 42,610 2,003 108,762 347,537 27,166

Continue to use the Pivot Table to answer the following questions: Question 1 What was the value of catalog sales for London in the first quarter? 2 What percent of the total annual sales were Tokyo Web sales in the fourth quarter? 3 What percent of Sydney's annual sales was its Catalog sales? 4 What was the value of catalog sales for London in January and give details of the transactions?
WHEN WHERE WHAT 1/9/97 London HOW Hammock Catalog Hat 1/9/97 London polar explorer Catalog 4 136 5

Answer 7,810 0.01% 18.24% 411

QUANTITY REVENUE 275

5 What was the value of Camel saddle sales for Paris in 2002
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Qtr1 13,156
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by quarter?

Qtr2 14,950 Qtr3 24,518 Qtr4 8,372 0 0 5 7 2 0 1 5 2 0 0 7

6 How many Elephant polo sticks were sold in New York in each month of 2002?

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

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Date rev i sed: October 31, 2011

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