Questions from Spreadsheet Modeling


Q: Charles Mc Keown is an acquisitions editor for a college textbook publisher

Charles Mc Keown is an acquisitions editor for a college textbook publisher. The file Books.xlsx that accompanies this book contains a list of 151 textbooks that Charles has an opportunity to acquire...

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Q: Radford Castings can produce brake shoes on six different machines. The

Radford Castings can produce brake shoes on six different machines. The following table Summary zes the manufacturing costs associated with producing the brake shoes on each Machine along with the av...

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Q: The teenage daughter of a recently deceased movie star inherited a number

The teenage daughter of a recently deceased movie star inherited a number of items from her famous father’s estate. Rather than convert these assets to cash immediately, her financia...

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Q: Identify reasonable values for M12 and M22 in the example on quantity

Identify reasonable values for M12 and M22 in the example on quantity discounts presented in section 6-16b of this chapter.

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Q: A developer of video game software has seven proposals for new games

A developer of video game software has seven proposals for new games. Unfortunately, the company cannot develop all the proposals because its budget for new projects is limited to $950,000 and it has...

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Q: Tropic sun is a leading grower and distributor of fresh citrus products

Tropic sun is a leading grower and distributor of fresh citrus products with three large citrus groves scattered around central Florida in the cities of Mt. Dora, Eustis, and Clermont. Tropic sun curr...

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Q: The demand for electricity varies greatly during the day. Because large

The demand for electricity varies greatly during the day. Because large amounts of electricity cannot be stored economically, electric power companies cannot manufacture electricity and hold it in inv...

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Q: A real estate developer is planning to build an apartment building specifically

A real estate developer is planning to build an apartment building specifically for graduate students on a parcel of land adjacent to a major university. Four types of apartments can be included in th...

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Q: Bellows Lumber Yard, Inc. stocks standard length, 25-

Bellows Lumber Yard, Inc. stocks standard length, 25-foot boards, which it cuts to custom lengths to fill individual customer orders. An order has just come in for 5,000 7-foot boards, 1,200 9-foot bo...

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Q: Howe’s Carpet World has just received an order for carpets for

Howe’s Carpet World has just received an order for carpets for a new office building. The order is for 4,000 yards of carpet 4-feet wide, 20,000 yards of carpet 9-feet wide, and 9,000 yards of carpet...

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