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Check Yourself — Lesson 5

Answers to Exercise 5
  1. Find heating and air conditioning contractors located in New Jersey with a sales greater than $100,000.

    Hint: Use PC=171104; you may want to check out the bluesheet for prefixes for STATE and SALES.

    Use ONTAP Duns Market Identifiers File 276.

      b 276
      s pc=171104
      s s1 and st=nj and sa>100000
      t s2/full



  2. In terms of dollars, what was the export of corn and/or wheat from the U.S. to Mexico?

    Hint: The product code for grain is 011.

    Use ONTAP Gale Group PROMT®, File 216.

      b 216
      s pc=011 and ec=64?


      Note: EC denotes event code; 64 is the event code for foreign trade
      Note: Adding truncation to the product code retrieves all narrower categories.

      s s1 and mexic?
      t s2/full

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