Solving a system of equations with Excel

Adopted from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EnecLe_0B4

You have obtained the following six equations from KVL and KCL

1 25 i1 + 2 i3 -10 i5 = 130
2 10 i2 +10 i5 +2 i6 = 450
3 (-25) i1 -10 i2 + 100 i4 = 0
4 (-1) i1 + i3 - i4 =0
5 i1 - i2 + i5 = 0
6 i2 - i6 = 0

This gives you coefficients for matrix A, and vector b, with unknown vector x=[i1, i2, i3 , …, i6].

A*x=b

Step 1 Type your coefficients for the square matrix (this example is for a 6x6 matrix)

A*x=b

i1 i2 i3 i4 i5 i6 b
25 0 2 0 -10 0 130
0 10 0 0 10 2 450
-25 -10 0 100 0 0 0
-1 0 1 -1 0 0 0
1 -1 0 0 1 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 -1 0

Step 2 find inverse of matrix A'

a. Highlight the solution space (6x6 array) that will contain the inverse matrix
b. Type =
c. Select function MINVERSE and select the array at the top, i.e. A
d. Make sure to click CTRL-SHIFT-RETURN (that will evaluate the whole solution array)

A'= 0.030261348 0.01348 -0.00061 -0.06052 0.167813 0.02696

0.0137551582 0.051582 -0.00028 -0.02751 -0.37827 0.103164
0.0392022008 0.022008 0.009216 0.921596 0.171939 0.044017
 0.0089408528 0.008528 0.009821 -0.01788 0.004127 0.017056
-0.01650619 0.038102 0.00033 0.033012 0.45392 0.076204
0.0137551582 0.051582 -0.00028 -0.02751 -0.37827 -0.89684

Step 3 You have now found A' and will use the equation

x = A' *b

to find solution vector x.

a. Highlight solution space (here 6x1 vector) and type =

b. Use function MMULT(array of A' , array of b)
c. Make sure to click CTRL-SHIFT-RETURN (that will evaluate the whole solution array)

x= 10
25
15
5
15
25

Step 4: Verify by calculating b = A x, or MMULT(array of A , array of x) plus CTRL SHIFT ENTER

b= 130
450
0
-1.776357E-15
1.065814E-14
-7.105427E-15
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2x2

Type your coefficients for the square matrix

A*x=b

x1 x2 b x
A= 4 -2 6 1.714286
1 3 3 0.428571

A'= 0.214286 0.142857 Check: b= 6

-0.07143 0.285714 3
Solving a system of equations with Excel

3x3

Type your coefficients for the square matrix

A*x=b

x1 x2 x3 b x
A= 1 2 3 4 0.125
5 6 7 8 -1.25
3 -2 1 5 2.125

A'= -0.625 0.25 0.125 Check: b= 4

-0.5 0.25 -0.25 8
0.875 -0.25 0.125 5
Solving a system of equations with Excel

4x4

Type your coefficients for the square matrix

A*x=b

x1 x2 x3 x4 b x
A= 1 2 3 4 4 -0.39583
5 6 7 5 8 -3.59375
3 -2 1 6 5 5.25
4 4 5 7 3 -1.04167

A'= -0.60417 0.125 0.104167 0.166667 Check: b= 4

-0.40625 -0.3125 -0.34375 0.75 8
0.75 0.5 0.25 -1 5
0.041667 -0.25 -0.04167 0.333333 3
Solving a system of equations with Excel

5x5

Type your coefficients for the square matrix

A*x=b

x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 b x
A= 1 2 3 4 3 4 -1.15789
5 6 7 5 3 8 -4.73684
3 -2 1 6 3 5 7.078947
4 4 5 7 3 3 -0.73684
4 2 3 2 3 2 -1.2193

A'= -0.36842 -0.10526 -1.11E-17 0.210526 0.263158 Check: b= 4

-0.05263 -0.65789 -0.5 0.815789 0.394737 8
0.184211 1.052632 0.5 -1.10526 -0.63158 5
-0.05263 -0.15789 -3.24E-17 0.315789 -0.10526 3
0.377193 -0.36842 -0.16667 0.070175 0.421053 2
Solving a system of equations with Excel

6x6

Type your coefficients for the square matrix

A*x=b

x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 b
A= 1 2 3 4 3 1 4
5 6 7 5 3 2 8
3 -2 1 6 3 3 5
4 4 5 7 3 2 3
4 2 3 2 3 1 2
5 5 4 3 2 1 1

A'= -0.44828 -0.18966 -0.08621 0.396552 0.396552 -0.10345 Check: b=

0.586207 0.017241 0.189655 -0.67241 -0.67241 0.827586
-0.53448 0.293103 -0.27586 0.568966 0.568966 -0.93103
-0.17241 -0.28448 -0.12931 0.594828 0.094828 -0.15517
0.603448 -0.12931 0.077586 -0.4569 0.043103 0.293103
0.758621 0.801724 0.818966 -1.76724 -1.26724 0.982759
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-1.86207
0.896552
0.741379
-1.7931
0.775862
6.689655

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