An analyst is working with a data set that lists individuals' first and last names in separate columns. Which of the following processes should the analyst use to combine the first and last names into

Transpose is a function used to swap rows and columns of a data range, not to combine text within cells.

Blend usually refers to combining data from multiple sources or tables, typically in a data visualization tool, not specifically joining text within a single spreadsheet row.

Concatenation is the process of joining two or more text strings (or values from different cells/columns) end-to-end to form a single, longer string. In a spreadsheet, functions like CONCATENATE or the '&' operator are used to combine first and last names from separate columns into one cell.

Merges typically refers to combining cells into one larger cell or combining datasets based on common keys, neither of which directly describes joining text strings from separate columns into a single text string.