Can excell calculate information for me and if so, how?

I have a product that currently is used at 3% application...

I would like to take this product and add another product to it at various
rates. 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%. The final product would still be used at 3%
application. The two products vary greatly in cost. I need to calculate the
final costs into this. Is there a program in excell that I can input these
numbers and percentages into?

No, there isn't any way to do that in Excel, because what you seemingly want to do violates the
principles of chemistry.

Assuming I am reading your post correctly, you cannot add different percentage formulations to a 3%
product and still get a 3% formulation.
If you add a higher percentage product (say, the 5% product), your percentage will range from 3%
(when you mostly have the first product) to 5%, when you mostly have the added product. There is NO
way to get to 3%, either in total or for both at the same time (you could get to a 3% solution of
the 5% product, but the original 3% product would be diluted below 3%). Likewise, if you add a
lower percentage (say 1%), your percentages will range from 3% down to 1%, depending on the ratio of
the products.

Just to add a little weight to my argument ;-), my belief is based on my having BS and MS degrees in
Chemical Engineering.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"rlphelp" wrote in message
...
Can excell calculate information for me and if so, how?

I have a product that currently is used at 3% application...

I would like to take this product and add another product to it at various
rates. 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%. The final product would still be used at 3%
application. The two products vary greatly in cost. I need to calculate the
final costs into this. Is there a program in excell that I can input these
numbers and percentages into?

Okay, I apparently was not clear. Thank you for letting me know. I
understand that the original product would not stay at 3%. Product X's
application is currently added at 3% and Product P's application is currently
added at 0.2%. I'd now like to combine these two products and form a new
product with the total addition to the final amount still remaining 3%.
Product P would range from 95%-99% of the total (3%) and product X would
range from 1-5% of the total (3%). My question is if this were to be done
what would the new percentage of product X and product P be in the overall
product? Addition of 3%PX (95%P and 5%X), (96%P and 4%X), and so on? Will
this program enable me to figure those numbers?

Thank you for helping me to clarify my problem Bernie Deitrick! Much
appreciated!



"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

No, there isn't any way to do that in Excel, because what you seemingly want to do violates the
principles of chemistry.

Assuming I am reading your post correctly, you cannot add different percentage formulations to a 3%
product and still get a 3% formulation.
If you add a higher percentage product (say, the 5% product), your percentage will range from 3%
(when you mostly have the first product) to 5%, when you mostly have the added product. There is NO
way to get to 3%, either in total or for both at the same time (you could get to a 3% solution of
the 5% product, but the original 3% product would be diluted below 3%). Likewise, if you add a
lower percentage (say 1%), your percentages will range from 3% down to 1%, depending on the ratio of
the products.

Just to add a little weight to my argument ;-), my belief is based on my having BS and MS degrees in
Chemical Engineering.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"rlphelp" wrote in message
...
Can excell calculate information for me and if so, how?

I have a product that currently is used at 3% application...

I would like to take this product and add another product to it at various
rates. 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%. The final product would still be used at 3%
application. The two products vary greatly in cost. I need to calculate the
final costs into this. Is there a program in excell that I can input these
numbers and percentages into?

rlphelp,

Yes, you can calculate the final percentage of each component in the final mix. For example, let's
say that you have two different products (Product1 and Product2), both made up of two items (Item1
and Item2): Let's say that this table is entered in cells A1:D3

Item1 Item2 Usage in Mix
Product1 3.00% 97.00% 5.00%
Product2 4.00% 96.00% 95.00%

Then to get the final mix values

Final Mix 3.95% 96.05%

=D3*B3+D2*B2 will return the 3.95%
=D3*C3+D2*C2 will return the 96.05%

I think that's what you want....

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"rlphelp" wrote in message
...
Okay, I apparently was not clear. Thank you for letting me know. I
understand that the original product would not stay at 3%. Product X's
application is currently added at 3% and Product P's application is currently
added at 0.2%. I'd now like to combine these two products and form a new
product with the total addition to the final amount still remaining 3%.
Product P would range from 95%-99% of the total (3%) and product X would
range from 1-5% of the total (3%). My question is if this were to be done
what would the new percentage of product X and product P be in the overall
product? Addition of 3%PX (95%P and 5%X), (96%P and 4%X), and so on? Will
this program enable me to figure those numbers?

Thank you for helping me to clarify my problem Bernie Deitrick! Much
appreciated!



"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

No, there isn't any way to do that in Excel, because what you seemingly want to do violates the
principles of chemistry.

Assuming I am reading your post correctly, you cannot add different percentage formulations to a
3%
product and still get a 3% formulation.
If you add a higher percentage product (say, the 5% product), your percentage will range from 3%
(when you mostly have the first product) to 5%, when you mostly have the added product. There is
NO
way to get to 3%, either in total or for both at the same time (you could get to a 3% solution of
the 5% product, but the original 3% product would be diluted below 3%). Likewise, if you add a
lower percentage (say 1%), your percentages will range from 3% down to 1%, depending on the ratio
of
the products.

Just to add a little weight to my argument ;-), my belief is based on my having BS and MS degrees
in
Chemical Engineering.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"rlphelp" wrote in message
...
Can excell calculate information for me and if so, how?

I have a product that currently is used at 3% application...

I would like to take this product and add another product to it at various
rates. 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%. The final product would still be used at 3%
application. The two products vary greatly in cost. I need to calculate the
final costs into this. Is there a program in excell that I can input these
numbers and percentages into?