How to use solver in excel

Excel includes a tool called Solver that uses techniques from operations research, a field focused on optimizing decisions, to solve all kinds of problems.

Load the Solver Add-in

To load the Solver add-in, execute the following steps.

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On the File tab, click Options.

2. Under Add-ins, select Solver Add-in and click on the Go button.

3. Check Solver Add-in and click OK.

4. You can find the Solver on the Data tab, in the Analyze group.

Formulate the Model

The model we are going to solve looks as follows in Excel.

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Excel solver linear programming

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How to use solver in excel to find a value

To formulate this linear programming model, answer the following three questions.

What are the decisions to be made? For this problem, we need Excel to find out how much to order of each product (bicycles, mopeds and child seats).

What are the constraints on these decisions?

The constraints here are that the amount of capital and storage used by the products cannot exceed the limited amount of capital and storage (resources) available. For example, each bicycle uses 300 units of capital and 0.5 unit of storage.

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