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    Formula to meet a goal

    my employees are surveyed by customers and we have a certain % goal that the survey needs to achieve.

    Actual data is the following:

    1700 surveys month to date in September
    % = Yes is 90% month to date

    monthly goal is 92%

    what i need is a formula that will tell me how many more surveys I need and at minimum what % the remaining september surveys need to be in order to achieve a month end goal of 92%

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    Re: Formula to meet a goal

    Try the below one
    =A1*(92%-B1)/(1-92%)
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    =A1*(1-B1)/(1-92%)-A1
    Here A1 = No of Surveys
    B2 = Present survey Yes %
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    Re: Formula to meet a goal

    Hey Samba. The result from your formula is 425. does that mean I need 425 surveys averaging 92% to reach my 92% goal?

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    Re: Formula to meet a goal

    Indeed, If we think of "positive answers" - it would be like this, because now you have:
    1530/1700 = 90%
    with 425 more positive you will have
    (1530+425)/(1700+425) so
    1955/2125 = 92%

    But may be the real number of customers was (100%) 1889 (so after surveying 1700 of then we got is 90% of 1889)

    1700/0.9=1889

    Then to reach 92% of all 1889 you need to collect 1738 answers
    =1700/0.9*0.92
    and as you already have 1700 you need to collect only 38 more - hope this is your case :-)
    Last edited by Kaper; 09-21-2018 at 09:23 AM. Reason: typos :(
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