I want an excel formula which shows, if rate is less then Rs 400 then commission is Rs 101, if rate is less then Rs 700 then commission is Rs121, if rate is less then Rs 1000 then commission is Rs 151 and show on. Please show the simple formula of 'IF' in excel worksheet. I want the commission to be auto generated.
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The commissions for the rates Rs400, Rs700, Rs1000 do not follow an easy pattern so you would need to have a formula relating the commission to the rate. If done by Excel IF statements, then the statement would be:

=IF(B3<400,101,IF(B3<700,121,(IF(B3<1000,151,B3*B3/18000+B3/45+92)))) where B3 happens to be the cell reference for the rate value. Note in this case that, if the rate is 1000 or more, the statement just returns a calculated commission according to a formula based on the given figures. For an indefinite rate value, see below, which uses a simple formula in place of a compound conditional statement.

If the cutoff for Rs1000 were 141 instead of 151, then there is no need for an IF statement because a simple formula will suffice for an indefinite range of rates:

=101+20*INT((INT(RATE/100-1)/3)) where RATE represents the cell reference for the rate value. The INT function replaces the conditional statements.

For example, if the rate cell contained Rs587, we would have 101+20*INT((INT(587/100)-1)/3)). Breaking this down:

101+20*INT((5-1)/3)=101+20*INT(4/3)=101+20*1=121, because Rs587 is between 400 and 700. The IF statement confirms that the commission would be Rs121.

If rate=Rs3000 the commission would be Rs281:

101+20*INT((INT(3000/100)-1)/3))=

101+20*INT((30-1)/3)=

101+20*INT(29/3)=

101+20*9=101+180=281.

The formula is clearly more flexible, but depends on a simple relationship between rate and commission. There is insufficient information in this question to establish such a relationship. The best would be a quadratic relationship.

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