Answer:
Count function and counta function are a statistical functions in excels that helps us.. count. The difference between count function to counta function is that count function considers only cells that contains a number and counta function counts all the cells that are not empty, regardless of what data they hold.
Count and counta functions are often use in large arrays of data when you want easily to count something, for example, when we get sales reports on sales of a new item, I want to know in a second how many stores sold at least on item and I am doing it by using count function.