Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper C006

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Solving Polynomial Equations via Excel

Jay Villanueva


Florida Memorial University

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ABSTRACT

We constantly need to solve equations, but often we only have answers to the simplest equations. Even the cubic equations are sometimes a problem. Here we present solutions of polynomial equations using Excel, with its built-in features Goal Seek and Solver. Excel's advantages are its ready availability and the ease in its application.

Keyword(s): spreadsheets