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Goal and seek question

Q1.) Aryan Ltd. operates in the generator business and sells each generator at a
price of Rs. 18000 and the quantity sold is 100.
One can observe in the below table that the company is suffering a loss of Rs.
13.8 lacs. Furthermore, the maximum price for which a generator can be sold is
identified to be Rs. 18000. Variable cost is the 10% of the price. Fixed cost is
Rs. 3000000. Now, one must identify the no. of generators that can be sold,
which will return the break-even value (No Profit No Loss). Thus, the Profit
value (Revenue – Fixed Cost + Variable cost) needs to be zero in order to attain
a break-even value.
Solution: https://www.educba.com/goal-seek-in-excel/

Q. How much down payment should a person deposit at the beginning of 5 year
duration for accumulating Rs. 100000 at the end. He also plans to deposit Rs.
10000 per year as a recurring deposit at the end of each year. The bank offers
8% rate of interest compounded annually. Use FV to compute the accumulated
amount at the end of the duration. Use Goal Seek for finding the answer instead
of using PV.
Let's say you're enrolled in a class. You currently have a grade of 65, and you
need at least a 70 to pass the class. Luckily, you have one final assignment that
might be able to raise your average. You can use Goal Seek to find out what
grade you need on the final assignment to pass the class.
In the image below, you can see that the grades on the first four assignments are
58, 70, 72, and 60. Even though we don't know what the fifth grade will be, we
can write a formula—or function—that calculates the final grade. In this case,
each assignment is weighted equally, so all we have to do is average all five
grades by typing =AVERAGE(B2:B6). Once we use Goal Seek, cell B6 will
show us the minimum grade we'll need to make on that assignment.

Select the cell whose value you want to change. Whenever you use Goal Seek,
you'll need to select a cell that already contains a formula or function. In our
example, we'll select cell B7 because it contains the formula
=AVERAGE(B2:B6).
Let's say you're planning an event and want to invite as many people as you can
without exceeding a budget of $500. We can use Goal Seek to figure out how
many people to invite. In our example below, cell B4 contains the formula
=B1+B2*B3 to calculate the total cost of a room reservation, plus the cost per
person.

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