Charles is having a lot of problems with errors in a very complicated spreadsheet that he inherited from a colleague, and he turns to another co-worker, Seymour, for tips on how to trace errors in the sheet.
-If Charles sees red tracer arrows that means there is an error in the value being received from the precedent cell or passed to the _______ cell.
A)child
B)precedent
C)dependent
D)contingent

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In Excel, the term "dependent" is used to refer to a cell that contains a formula that depends on the values of other cells (called "precedents"). Therefore, if Charles sees red tracer arrows, it means that there is an error in the value being received from a precedent cell or passed to a dependent cell. Hence, the best choice is C) dependent.

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