5.9 Developing your spreadsheet modelling skills

Problem solving with spreadsheet models

is a great fan of difficult puzzles that are printed in her locals newspaper every week One week she sees this problem.

If MIRZA is 67 and RALTROW is 105 who is the biggest movie star in this table?

It took Shilppa some time to figured out, but she finally realised that MIRZA was 67 because M is the 13th letter in the alphabet, and A is the first letter. So, if you add together the values of all the letters in the name, you get 67.