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Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 6th Edition
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Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 6th Edition

by Wayne Winston
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
880 pages
27h 3m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 6th Edition

Chapter 37 Penalties and the Evolutionary Solver

Questions answered in this chapter:

  • What are the keys to successfully using the Evolutionary Solver?

  • How can I use the Evolutionary Solver to assign 80 workers in Microsoft Finance to a job in one of four workgroups?

Answers to this chapter’s questions

What are the keys to successfully using the Evolutionary Solver?

Previously, I stated that the Evolutionary Solver should be used to find solutions to optimization problems in which the target cell and/or changing cells involve nonsmooth functions, such as IF, ABS, MAX, MIN, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, SUMIF, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIF, and AVERAGEIFS. Before solving a problem with Evolutionary Solver, you should do the following in the Solver Parameters dialog ...

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