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Daily Archives: 28-April-2012
Randomly Choosing a Winner from a Weighted List with Excel
My wife is participating in a friendly contest at work that encourages employees to exercise. The employees record how many laps they walk around a set course during a month. At the end of the month, an Excel "drawing" is held to award a prize to one of the exercisers. To encourage more exercising, the likelihood of winning is to be proportional to the number of laps each person walked during the month. I was asked if I could write an Excel worksheet that would perform this task. Continue reading
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