Tuesday 5 February 2013

How to use Excel's Goal Seek analysis

Excel provides many ways to analyse data. One powerful tool is Goal Seek -tool. Following demo presents a simple example to find out body weight when target Body Mass Index (BMI) is known by using Goal Seek analysis. All we need to do is to know the formula of BMI and then define target BMI. We try to solve out the body weight that is needed to achieve our target BMI.

The formula for BMI is:

BMI = Weight[kg] / (Height[m] x Height[m])

The following video demonstrates this:



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