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Excel & Solver: Practice Exercises: Blue-Ridge Hot Tubs
Excel & Solver: Practice Exercises: Blue-Ridge Hot Tubs
See the accompanying handout named Excel & Solver: Hands-on Modeling Practice Exercises
available at this URL: http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~pecklund/excelreview/ExcelReview.htm
For maximum challenge, just use the handout problem descriptions and build your own models.
If you'd like some help getting started, work with the "basic" spreadsheet for each exercise.
If you need more assistance figuring out how to proceed, see the additional spreadsheets
for each exercise that show formulas and the use of Solver.
actice Exercises
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Blue Ridge Formulas
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Blue Ridge Solver
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Wood Basic
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Wood Formulas
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Wood Formulas
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Wood Solver
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Electro-Poly Basic
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Electro-Poly Formulas
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Electro-Poly Solver
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