Office 2013 myitlab:grader Instructions

Excel Project

WVU CS101 - MyITLab Bonus Project #1: NPS Visitation

Problem v1.4
Project Description:
Students will analyze statistics about visitation to National Park Service units in the eastern United
States.
Instructions:
For the purpose of grading the project you are required to perform the following tasks:
Step

Points
Possible

Instructions

Start Excel. Open the downloaded Excel workbook named Powell_NPS_Visitation.xlsx.

0.000

Format cells A3 through N184 as a table using a style of your choice.

1.600

We need to add an additional table column to store average visitation statistics on the Visitation sheet.

0.400

Insert one new table column to the right of existing column N.

0.800

For the table, turn on the Total Row option.

Enter text in the cell as indicated below:

0.400

O3: Average

Merge-and-center cells A1 through O1.

0.400

Apply the Title cell style to cell A1.

0.400

Format the cells as indicated below:

0.800

D4 through O185: number with no decimal places, use 1000 separator

10

In column O, use the AVERAGE() function to determine the average number of visitors to each NPS
unit from 2003 to 2013.

2.200

In the total row, individually find the sums for columns D through N.

1.600

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Office 2013 myitlab:grader Instructions

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Points
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Instructions

11

In the total row, do not display any statistics in column O.

0.400

12

AutoFit the widths of columns A through C. Set the widths of columns D through O to 11.

0.800

13

14

Create a 2-D line chart based on the non-contiguous cell range A3, D3 through N3, A185, and D185
through N185 of the Visitation sheet. Move the chart to a new sheet named Total Visitation Chart.
Ensure that the years are shown as labels for the horizontal (category) axis, not plotted as chart data.
Specify appropriate chart and axis titles.
Add a trendline to the Total Visitation Chart based on the total visitation. Use the trendline type that best
fits the data and project the values forward 10 periods (through the year 2023). Display the R-squared
value on the chart.

3.200

1.200

Note: You cannot use the Moving Average type for your trendline.
15

Create a new PivotChart and PivotTable based on the data in cells A3 through O184 of the Visitation
sheet. Place the PivotTable on a new sheet named Visitation PivotTable and move the PivotChart to a
new sheet named Visitation PivotChart.

3.200

On the PivotTable, do the following:

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17

0.800

- Add the park type as a Rows field.

- Add the average visitation as a Values field.

0.200

On the PivotTable, summarize the average visitation figures by summing them.

Format the PivotTable cells as indicated below:

18

0.800
- Visitation column: number with no decimal places, use 1000 separator
We need to perform some formatting on our PivotChart.

19

0.800

- Ensure the chart is a 2-D clustered column chart.

- Specify appropriate chart and axis titles.
- Turn off display of the legend.
Total Points

Updated: 07/10/2016

20.000

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