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EXCEL ACTIVITY "Amusement Parks!"

The document provides instructions for a spreadsheet activity where students are asked to research ticket prices for five amusement parks in California, enter the data into a spreadsheet, calculate the average price, identify which park is closest to the average, and then graph the results. The directions include formatting the spreadsheet with landscape orientation, headers, gridlines and a footer with the student's name. Students are also instructed to hide unnecessary columns before creating a column, bar, or line graph to analyze the data, label the graph, and print or save the completed worksheet.

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EXCEL ACTIVITY "Amusement Parks!"

The document provides instructions for a spreadsheet activity where students are asked to research ticket prices for five amusement parks in California, enter the data into a spreadsheet, calculate the average price, identify which park is closest to the average, and then graph the results. The directions include formatting the spreadsheet with landscape orientation, headers, gridlines and a footer with the student's name. Students are also instructed to hide unnecessary columns before creating a column, bar, or line graph to analyze the data, label the graph, and print or save the completed worksheet.

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EXCEL ACTIVITY “Amusement Parks!

It’s your birthday and your parents have given you the choice of
going to any one of five amusement parks in California. There is just
one catch – they have asked that you choose the park with an
entrance fee that is closest to the AVERAGE in price. Surf the
internet to find how much it will cost for YOUR family to go to each
park. Put your information into a spreadsheet and then graph your
findings.

Amusement Park Choices (For prices Google the park + ticket prices)
 Disneyland
 Knott’s Berry Farm
 Six Flags – Magic Mountain
 Universal Studios
 Sea World San Diego

1. Go to each of the five amusement park websites. Compute how much it


will cost for your family to enter only THAT park for just ONE day. After
gathering all of the information, put your findings into a well-organized
spreadsheet. An example of one way to set up the data is below:
2. HINT: The formula for total price of admission would include the admission
price per adult times the number of adults in your family PLUS the admission
price per child times the number of children in your
family. The average price formula would be the
average of all the total prices of admission. Be
sure to use ( ) when necessary!

3. when you have an average price figured, select


and use a fill color such as red or yellow to show
which one of the Amusement Parks is closest to
the average price for YOUR family. (this may not
be the same for someone else!)

4. Before you go any further, be sure you go to


File-Page Set-up and format for landscape mode,
add a footer with your name and Amusement Parks, and show gridlines and
headers.

5. Now you will GRAPH your findings. Highlight the entire


columns B through E and right click. Choose the word
HIDE. Part of your chart will disappear. Don’t panic! We
can UN-HIDE when we are ready! Now highlight the
remaining columns and continue….

6. Decide which graphing process will give you the best


analysis or show the information the easiest: column, bar,
or line. Label the graph appropriately with a title, x and y
axis. You may want to add the dollar amounts (value) to data labels.

7. When your chart is complete, hit print preview to


check you are still on one page, then save. You
will be using this information again, so BE
SURE TO SAVE!!!! Submit using Google
Classroom or save in your folder on the LAB PC

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