If cell A1 = 10 and B1 = 20, what will `=A1+B1` return?
30
This question checks how a spreadsheet evaluates a formula that references other cells. In Excel, any entry beginning with an equals sign (=) is treated as a formula: the program looks up the referenced cells, substitutes their values, and computes a result.
Here A1 holds the number 10 and B1 holds the number 20. The formula =A1+B1 uses the + arithmetic operator, which performs numeric addition. So Excel evaluates it step by step:
- Read A1 → 10
- Read B1 → 20
- Add: 10 + 20 = 30
Therefore the formula returns 30.
Why the other results do not occur:
- Error would appear only if the formula were malformed or referenced invalid data (for example a divide-by-zero or an unknown name); =A1+B1 is perfectly valid, so no error is produced.
- 1020 is what you would get from concatenation — joining the two entries as text with the & operator (=A1&B1) — which glues "10" and "20" into "1020" rather than adding them.
- 200 is the product, obtained with the multiplication operator (=A1*B1 = 10 × 20). The plus sign adds rather than multiplies, so 200 is not the answer.
Because the operator is + and both cells contain numbers, the correct output is 30.
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