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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling
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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling

by Wayne L. Winston
January 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
720 pages
23h 29m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 36. 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 the Evolutionary Solver, you should do the following in the Solver Parameters dialog box: ...

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