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Publication Date: 2008
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Getting the Best out of Excel
Heys, Chris
Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, v27 n1 p48-52 2008
Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet program, offers several tools which have proven useful in solving some optimization problems that arise in operations research. We will look at two such tools, the Excel modules called Solver and Goal Seek--this after deriving an equation, called the "cash accumulation equation", to be used in conjunction with them.
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Spreadsheets, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Operations Research, Equations (Mathematics)
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