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Challenge #213: Optimized Flower Arrangements

peter_gb
Boule de feu

Loved this use case for learning the optimisation tool :)
Solved it the two ways which make most sense to me.
The constraints in rows is less intuitive I find

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cmoussa
Astéroïde

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tammybrown_tds
Comète

 

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JBevan89
Astéroïde

My Solution Attached.

 

I can Not believe it 🙄 as it took me over an hour to figure that I need to switch the toggle on the tools 'maximise optimization'.  That's a downside of learning a new tool

martinson
Bolide

My red rose and white daisy are flipped compared to the answer

Cheers,
martinson

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Bulien
Carolyn
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Solved! Like @martinson , my Red Roses and White Daisies are switched. The total price is $949.05 which meets the condition pretty well (vs $949.90 with the Red Roses), so I'm thinking my Alteryx was just more of a fan of the daisies :)

 

 

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aiahwieder
Comète

I will need to do about three dozen more knapsack problems before this ever becomes second nature--the biggest challenge for me was 

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preparing the data!