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In MS Excel, the MAX function returns
Answer: B
Correct answer: the largest value in a range
MAX returns the largest numeric value in a range, and MIN the smallest. Both ignore text and empty cells, and both return 0 if the range contains no numbers at all. The fourth option describes MODE, which returns the most frequent value - one of the three measures of central tendency, alongside AVERAGE for the mean and MEDIAN for the middle value. Each answers a different question, and the median is the one to prefer where a few extreme values would distort the mean. For a ranked position rather than the extreme, LARGE and SMALL take a second argument: =LARGE(A1:A100,3) gives the third largest. MAXIFS and MINIFS apply conditions. A common combination worth knowing is =INDEX(B:B,MATCH(MAX(A:A),A:A,0)), which returns the value in column B belonging to the row where column A is greatest.
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