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Challenge #196: Determine Profit Margin

AYXAcademy
Alteryx
Alteryx

A solution to last week's challenge has been posted here

 

This week's challenge comes to you from ACE @Treyson - Thank you for your contribution! 

 

Determine the profit margin for your company based on the number of quarters they have been a customer of yours. Read the directions carefully and use the hints as needed.

 

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nivi_s
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Solved!

 

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RolandSchubert
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Really nice challenge.

 

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abrouwer
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Attached is my solution

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RichoBsJ
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Hi! Here my solution 🙂

 

Happy New Year!!

 

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EW
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That was a fun challenge, @Treyson - I never thought about quarters that way!

 

My solution:

 

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I struggled a bit to come up with a good way to get the Quarters number, but ended up using datetimediff and converting it to quarters.  I think it would have had to have been a lot more complicated if the dates weren't all the first day of the quarter.
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Blake
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TonyA
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Here's my solution. Nothing fancy.

Carlo_SKay
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kylemhabe
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My solution.

 

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