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Litware from New York will be displayed at the top of the result set – Yes

The data is sorted first by Location in descending order and then by UnitsSold in descending order. Since " New York " is alphabetically the last Location, it will appear first in the result set. Within " New York " , Litware has the highest UnitsSold (1000), so it will be displayed at the top.

Fabrikam in Seattle will have value = 2 in the Rank column – No

The row_rank_dense function assigns dense ranks based on UnitsSold within each location. In " Seattle " :

Contoso has UnitsSold = 300 → Rank 1

Litware has UnitsSold = 100 → Rank 2

Fabrikam also has UnitsSold = 100, so it shares the same rank (2) as Litware.

Litware in San Francisco will have the same value in the Rank column as Litware in New York – No

The rank is calculated separately for each location. In " San Francisco " :

Both Relecloud and Litware have UnitsSold = 500, so they share the same rank (1).

In " New York " , Litware has the highest UnitsSold = 1000 → Rank 1.

Since ranks are calculated independently for each location, Litware in San Francisco does not share the same rank as Litware in New York.