Question

Lael is always on the lookout for qualified students who might be interested in running for office in student groups. A student is qualified to be an officer if they have already been elected to office in a student group; and if they have not, they are qualified if they have been certified financially. Populate the Officer Qualified column as follows:

a. Enter a formula using nested functions to determine if the first student is qualified to be an officer. If the student has been previously elected (i.e., "Yes" displays in the Elected column), display Elected.
b. Otherwise, if the student is "Finance Certified", display Yes; if not, display No.
c. Fill the formula to the rest of the column, if necessary.

Answer 1

To populate the Officer Qualified column, you can use a formula that checks whether a student has been previously elected or is finance certified. Use nested IF and AND functions along with the appropriate conditions to display 'Elected', 'Yes', or 'No' based on the student's qualifications.

Step-by-step explanation:

To populate the Officer Qualified column, you can use a formula that checks whether a student has been previously elected or is finance certified. Here's how you can do it:

a. If the student has been previously elected, you can use the IF function to display 'Elected' when the value in the Elected column is 'Yes'. The formula would be: =IF(Elected="Yes", "Elected", "").

b. If the student has not been previously elected, you can use the IF function along with the AND function to display 'Yes' if the student is finance certified, and 'No' if not. The formula would be: =IF(AND(Elected<>"Yes", FinanceCertified="Finance Certified"), "Yes", "No").

c. To fill the formula to the rest of the column, simply double-click the fill handle in the bottom right corner of the first cell with the formula. This will automatically fill the formula down to the last row of data.