The Solver add-in for Microsoft Excel is one of the most important, so we can understand the frustrations when users cannot get it to work as they hope. In older versions of Excel, folks had to ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

Absolute value is a mathematical term that is defined as the distance between a number and zero, irrespective of its sign. In Excel, the formula that helps you calculate the absolute value of a number ...