WEEKDAY and WORKDAY in Excel - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the formula to get the weekday number of the date in cell A1.

Excel

=WEEKDAY([1])

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AA1

B1

C"A1"

DDATE(2023,1,1)

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Common Mistakes

Using a number like 1 instead of a cell reference.

Putting the cell reference in quotes like "A1" which makes it text.

The WEEKDAY function needs a date value or cell reference containing a date. Using A1 correctly references the date in cell A1.

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medium

Complete the formula to find the date 5 workdays after the date in cell B2.

Excel

=WORKDAY([1], 5)

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AB2

B5

C"B2"

DTODAY()

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Common Mistakes

Using a number like 5 as the start date.

Putting the cell reference in quotes like "B2".

The WORKDAY function needs a start date as the first argument. Using B2 correctly references the start date.

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hard

Fix the error in the formula to get the weekday number of the date in C3 with Monday as day 1.

Excel

=WEEKDAY(C3, [1])

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A1

B2

C3

D0

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Common Mistakes

Using 1 which counts Sunday as 1.

Using 0 or 3 which are invalid or count days differently.

Using 2 as the second argument makes WEEKDAY count Monday as 1, Tuesday as 2, and so on.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a formula that finds the date 10 workdays after D4, excluding holidays listed in F1:F5.

Excel

=WORKDAY([1], [2], F1:F5)

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AD4

B10

C5

DTODAY()

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Swapping the start date and number of days.

Using a number instead of a cell reference for the start date.

The first argument is the start date D4. The second argument is the number of workdays to add, which is 10.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a dictionary comprehension that maps each date in the list 'dates' to its weekday number starting on Monday.

Excel

{ [1]: WEEKDAY([2], [3]) for [2] in dates }

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Adate

Bd

C2

D1

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using the same variable name for key and loop variable.

Using 1 instead of 2 for the WEEKDAY type argument.

The key is each date, so date. The variable iterating over dates is d. The WEEKDAY second argument 2 makes Monday day 1.