A manufacturer of machine tools creates a spreadsheet of tools and the cost for those. The spreadsheet has four fields: name of the tool, cost per tool, number of tools, and the total cost. If you want to find out which tool costs the most, how would you sort the data?

1. Sort the data in the field "name of the tool" in ascending order alphabetically.

2. Sort the data in the field "number of tools" in ascending order.

3. Sort the data in ascending order of cost per tool.

4. Sort the data in ascending order of total cost.

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Jamya Eaton

Computers & Technology

21 December, 13:49

A manufacturer of machine tools creates a spreadsheet of tools and the cost for those. The spreadsheet has four fields: name of the tool, cost per tool, number of tools, and the total cost. If you want to find out which tool costs the most, how would you sort the data?

1. Sort the data in the field "name of the tool" in ascending order alphabetically.

2. Sort the data in the field "number of tools" in ascending order.

3. Sort the data in ascending order of cost per tool.

4. Sort the data in ascending order of total cost.

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Angelique · Answer 1

What is being asked is which tool costs the most. In other words, the price of the tool that is the highest is required to be known. The answer to this questions is

3. Sort the data in ascending order of cost per tool.