Electronic Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

San Antonio, Texas, March 6-9, 2008

Paper C021

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Linear Programming via Excel

J Villanueva


Florida Memorial University


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ABSTRACT

Excel can be used to find solutions to linear programming problems in business and engineering. Excel has built-in features, like Solver, to solve optimization problems, among other things. There are other built-in tools in Excel, like vBA (visual Basic for Applications), which can be used to solve optimization problems.

Keyword(s): linear programming, spreadsheets