You are planning a promotion that will feature a lunch special. the lunch special will feature a loss leader of a piece of pie for $1 when the customer orders a meal. the normal retail price of the pie is $2. your cost for the pie is $1. how much margin is being lost if you sell 35 of the lunch specials?

Dr. sperry, a biologist, is using excel to track growth rates of different populations of bacteria. she has a very complex formula in one cell. it begins with “round”. dr. sperry would like to see exactly how excel’s calculation reached the final rounded value that she sees in the cell. what could dr. sperry do to best understand how the calculation was made? try different formulas on her own until she reaches the value shown in excel click on the evaluate formula button in the formulas tab and then click “step in” select the cell and then look at the formula in the formula field of the ribbon remove “round” from the formula in order to see the actual value before rounding