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Excel weightlifting math
You're certainly correct. But I assumed in my more simplistic way that you'd want as few weights on a bar as possible, which means take the heaviest first, see how much of the desired total can be achieved with them, then next heaviest on down.
Achieving 25 lb with 10 x 2.5 would not be practical, even though theoretically the same weight.
Your acceptance as well as your presentation is very correct and well structured.
The problem is the question.
It is an open question that allows a lot of guesswork.
I would have followed the same logically as you, but mostly such questions are not the obvious.
Since Sbermab himself does not know exactly how he would like to solve his problem,
otherwise he would be, I think, more precise.
I only asked to save time as much as possible.
All good 🙂 ... I wish you a pleasant evening and have a nice weekend.
thx for your time 🙂
NikolinoDE : You wrote ...
The problem is the question.
It is an open question that allows a lot of guesswork.
.... but mostly such questions are not the obvious.
How very true. I find myself going back, as you did here, more times than not, because the questions are poorly formed, allow for far too many interpretations or, worse, are far too vague to even understand.
This one, I left alone for quite a while, and then finally tackled partly just to see how I could (if I could) resolve it. And it ended up being fun and more straight forward than I expected. I'd never used, to my memory, the MOD function, but it was there in the back of my mind and turned out to be very helpful.
NikolinoDE : You wrote ...
The problem is the question.
It is an open question that allows a lot of guesswork.
.... but mostly such questions are not the obvious.
How very true. I find myself going back, as you did here, more times than not, because the questions are poorly formed, allow for far too many interpretations or, worse, are far too vague to even come up with an interpretation. Have a good weekend.