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Hi I'm struggling to work out the following, please can someone help with the formula? I apologise in advance but I've had to hide the nature of what I need the formula for.
I have a total number of "sweets" that need to be divided equally by 4. However there are occasions when I have "special sweets." These special sweets mean if you have a special sweet you can only have a total quantity of 3 sweets.
For example there are 20 sweets including 2 special sweets.
2 people get a special sweet each plus 2 additional sweets leaving 14 sweets.
3 people are going to get 4 sweets leaving 1 person to get 2 sweets.
The total number of bags I need is 6.
I need a formula to work out how many bags I need based on this information.
In Excel - FZ20 contains the total number of sweets (20)
FZ21 contains how many special sweets there are (2)
can someone create a formula that incorporates this cell information and the above criteria so FZ22 displays how many bags I need?
TIA
Steve
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Let T = total number of sweets.
Let S - number of special sweets.
Let ]x[ denote the value of x rounded up to the nearest integer: ]4[=4, ]4.1[=5
There are S bags of 3 sweets each. The number of remaining sweets is T-3S
The number of bags needed is S + ](T-3S)/4[
Substitute the cell references for T and S and invoke the appropriate Excel function and you have your formula.