Goal Seek, Looking for some help with modeling

Hey all, getting ready for technical interviews coming out of undergrad here and I'm looking for some help with goalseek, I understand it's use but I'm struggling to understand it's role in this situation -- for example, if you were given a set of assumptions that required you to find an asset's purchase price and entry cap rate, but they only provided a levered IRR requirement to go off of, how would you go about doing this?

I've tried just assuming a purchase price to get a loan amount to find some annual debt service payments - then using these levered cash flows to goal seek a purchase price (rough example of this below), but I'm not sure if this is the right way to go about it

I would really appreciate any insight anyone might be able to provide on this

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