# COUNT | CSE 148 – Excel Exam 1

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## COUNT explained

Say you're watching the Super Bowl with your friends, and some of you decided to bet on the game.

Before the game, everyone's name was written on a whiteboard with how much of their money was on the line. If you decided you didn't want to gamble, your excuse was written next to your name instead of a dollar amount.

Out of this list, if we wanted to easily figure out how many people actually bet on the game, we could use a COUNT function!

COUNT returns the count of numbers in a given list of values/cells. It does not include blank spaces or text in the result.

## Coding a COUNT

Let's transfer the whiteboard above onto an Excel spreadsheet:

Now, let's reference the COUNT template and apply it to our Excel sheet.

=COUNT(number1, [number2]...)

For our number1 and number2 we'll just click and drag our mouse over all the betting values on the spreadsheet in column B.

=COUNT(B2:B19)

Perfect! This shows us that out of all our friends, 13 of them decided to place money on the Super Bowl game.

### COUNT vs. COUNTA

Sometimes, you may be asked to determine how many values exist in a list, including text. This is where COUNTA comes into play.

While COUNT only determines how many numbers are in a given range, COUNTA determines how many values (including text) are in a given range.

So, in our whiteboard case, if we wanted to figure out how many total friends were at the Super Bowl party, we could accomplish that with a COUNTA function like so!

=COUNTA(B2:B19)

We now know there are 18 friends at the Super Bowl party!

## Practice problem

Given the following race results, determine how many of the participants actually finished the race. Any participants without an end time did not cross the finish line.

=COUNT(C2:C9)

5 participants finished the race!

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