Question

Use the MID function in cell C7 to return the text 'entered the server room at' (notice the spaces at the beginning and end of the phrase) from the 'Text Stamp Phrase' in cell C2. Use a reference to the location of the '#' symbol in cell C4 as the 'start_num' argument. Since the '#' symbol is 1 character before the text you want to return, you will need to adjust the '[num_chars]' argument by adding 1 to the reference to cell C4. Use the difference between the location of the '#' symbol and the characters ' HH' as the 'num_chars' argument.

a. =MID(C2, C4 + 1, LEN(C2) - C4 - 3)
b. =MID(C2, C4 + 1, LEN(C2) - C4 - 4)
c. =MID(C2, C4, LEN(C2) - C4 - 2)
d. =MID(C2, C4 - 1, LEN(C2) - C4 - 1)

Answer 1

The correct Excel MID function to extract the phrase 'entered the server room at' using the location of the '#' symbol in cell C4 is '=MID(C2, C4 + 1, LEN(C2) - C4 - 4)'. This accounts for the position after '#' and excludes the ' HH' from the string length calculation.

Step-by-step explanation:

The MID function in Excel is used to return a specific number of characters from a text string, starting at the position you specify. The question focuses on extracting the phrase 'entered the server room at' from a larger string in cell C2. To do this, we must use the location of the '#' symbol in cell C4 as the starting position (start_num argument) and calculate the number of characters to return using the length of the original string (LEN(C2)), adjusted for the position of '#' and the characters ' HH'.

After analyzing the options and understanding the requirements, the correct formula is: =MID(C2, C4 + 1, LEN(C2) - C4 - 4). This formula starts extracting 1 character after the '#' symbol and returns the correct number of characters by subtracting the starting position and additional 4 characters for the length of ' HH' and the '#' character itself from the total length of the original string.