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In Excel, which function would you use to count the number of cells in a range that meet a specific condition?

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The correct answer is

=COUNTIF(A1:A10, ">10")

The requirement is to count only those cells in a range that satisfy a stated condition, rather than counting or summing everything.

The COUNTIF function is built for exactly this: it takes a range and a single criterion and returns how many cells in that range meet the criterion.

Here \(=COUNTIF(A1:A10, ">10")\) examines A1 to A10 and returns the number of cells whose value is greater than 10.

So the correct function is =COUNTIF(A1:A10, ">10").

COUNT simply tallies how many cells in the range contain numbers, ignoring any condition, and COUNTBLANK counts only the empty cells, so neither applies a 'greater than 10' test.

SUMIF adds up the values that meet a condition instead of counting the cells, so it answers a different question and is not correct here.

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