| Add-in | A specialized feature of Excel that not everyone uses on a regular basis.
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| Answer report | The most popular Solver report, which lists the target cell, the changing cells with their original and final values, constraints, and data about the constraints.
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| Binding | A resource constraint that is a limiting factor.
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| Constrained optimization | A technique whereby you specify a set of constraints and an outcome or result that you want minimized or maximized.
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| Constraint | A limitation on the values that a cell can have.
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| Equation-solving | Goal-seeking or back-solving method such as the method used by the Goal Seek command.
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| Goal Seek | A worksheet command that works backward to compute an unknown value that produces the final, optimized result you desire.
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| Goal Seek objective | The end result you want to achieve using goal seek techniques.
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| Limit report | A Solver report that displays the range of values that the changing cells can assume, based on the constraints you have defined.
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| Linear programming problem | Such problems involve one or more unknowns and an equal number of equations.
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| Object function | The cell containing a function whose value you want to optimize and whose value is affected by a change in the decision variables.
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| Precedent value | The value on which a formula, or result, is directly or indirectly based.
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| Product mix | The quantity of each product to sell in order to generate the greatest profit.
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| Resource allocation problem | An optimization problem in which productive resources (people, raw materials, time, and so on) can be used in a variety of places or in different products, and in which those resources must be distributed in the best way possible.
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| Sensitivity report | A Solver report that shows how sensitive the current solution is to changes in the adjustable cells.
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| Slack | The quantity of a resource that has not been used or allocated.
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