professional sports leagues in the world! It is esti mated that the American
organized fashion, as well as by countless others in "pick-up" games.
In the regular season, each NBAŽ team plays 82 games, which are divided
evenly between home and away games. Schedules are not identi cal for all
teams. A team faces opponents in its own division four ti mes a year, teams
from the other two divisions in its conference either three or four ti mes a year,
and teams in the other conference two ti mes each.
The following acti vity illustrates how newspapers use spreadsheets to list the
NBAŽ Standings so sports enthusiasts can see how their favorite teams are
doing as compared to other teams in the NBAŽ.
2. Type the data as shown.
3. Delete rows 5 and 28 simultaneously (Hint: Click and hold <CTRL> to select
5. Format the width of column A to 26.0 and columns B E to 8.0.
6. Bold row 2 and change the font size to 16 point.
9. Compute the formula for PCT (Percentage Won) for the fi rst game as follows: