How to Multiply in Excel

How to Multiply in Excel
In the previous parts of this Excel tutorial, you have been working on a spreadsheet that now looks like this:
To get the weekly cost of each chocolate bar, we need to multiply the Number of bars eaten in one week by the Price. This can then go in the Cost column. The standard way to multiply things is like this:
12 x 10 = 120
The "x" means multiply. In a spreadsheet, however, the letter "x" is not used to multiply things. Spreadsheets use the asterisk symbol instead (the one above the number 8 on your keyboard, in the UK). The previous sum would then look like this:

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