Formulas
Now that you're able to navigate your way around a spreadsheet, it's time to introduce some functionality to your Google Sheets with formulas.
Formulas allow you to perform calculations in your Google Sheets, similar to the way you'd use a calculator. Writing formulas helps reduce the likelihood of errors arising from performing mental arithmetic or pen-and-paper calculations to manually input values; they also allow interested stakeholders to see how cell values were calculated.
In this exercise, you'll perform multiplication and division in a formula to fill in the missing Price, Quantity, and Total Price values, where Total Price is calculated by multiplying Price and Quantity.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Google Sheets
Exercise instructions
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E2, use a formula to calculate thePriceofEggsfrom itsQuantityandTotal Pricevalues. - In
F3, calculate theQuantityofSugarfrom itsPriceandTotal Pricevalues. - In
G4, calculate theTotal PriceofButterfrom itsPriceandQuantityvalues. - In
F5, calculate theQuantityofFlourfrom itsPriceandTotal Pricevalues.
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