Advertising for a shop

Sally needs to know how many people are being reached in her advertising and what type of advertising is the most cost effective.

  1. Use the file spreadsheet shopadvertising.xls  Save in your own folder as YourSurnameAdvertising.
  2. Calculate how many people are reached per rand per advertisement. (Division)
  3. Calculate the Total number of people reached if she places 2 newspaper, 1 radio and 5 TV advertisements. (Multiplication)
  4. What would be the total cost of all the advertisements as above?  (Multiplication, SUM)
  5. Format the currency cells as currency and the number cells as number.
  6. In File / Properties add your name as the author.
  7. As a footer add the file name left, Prepared by ...  and the date centre.  (Add as a mixture of normal and custom footers.)
  8. Print and hand in the solution.

The solution is below.

Sally Nodlela's Craft Shop
Monthly Sale Advertising Breakdown
Newspaper Radio TV
People reached per advertisement 2500 7000 2000
Cost per advertisement 75.00 100.00 200.00
People reached per rand 33.33 70.00 10.00

Totals

Advertisements placed 2 1 5 8
Total people reached 5,000 7,000 10,000 22,000
Total cost R150 R100 R1,000 R1,250

 


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