The phrase "adjusted the formula" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to making changes or modifications to a specific formula, often in a scientific, mathematical, or technical context.
Example: "After reviewing the results, the team adjusted the formula to improve accuracy in their calculations."
Alternatives: "modified the formula" or "revised the formula".
Things were touch and go for a while, as Mr. Colicchio adjusted the formula.
He worked from a recipe in a back issue of Scientific American, then adjusted the formula.
Finally, after the budget was enacted, Congress came through with extra federal aid, a windfall of $1.2 billion in additional money for Medicaid, after Washington adjusted the formula governing the program.
He suggested that the best solution would be a settlement that adjusted the formulas worked out by Mr. Feinberg, who Mr. Cambria said also wanted to do right by the families.
At the end, we adjust the formula of process capability to accommodate those shifts which can not be detected.
Another $45 billion to $50 billion could be saved by adjusting the formula for pay increases to take account of special allowances and benefits worth about $5,000 a year.
This summer, the growing severity of fire seasons prompted the Obama administration to ask Congress to adjust the formula by which it appropriates funds to fight bigger wilderness fires that are threatening homes and businesses.
The income-based program came along more recently, and the Obama administration then tweaked it to make it more generous by shortening repayment periods and adjusting the formula used in figuring out the monthly bill.
By adjusting the formula parameters chitosan microspheres with an average pore size of 47.5 ± 5.4 μm were first developed at a concentration of 2 wt.% and freeze temperature of −20 °C.
Neither will it blunt increasing resentment that, although Scotland has its own Parliament, Scottish MPs (including the probable next prime minister) get to make decisions about purely English matters.Both of these things can be improved by adjusting the formula under which money is dished out to Scotland, and by cutting further the number of Scottish MPs in Westminster.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said Labour would seek to adjust the formula to benefit Wales, what he called "Barnett Plus" - which may sound like a vitamin supplement but may be easier to explain than the "Barnett floor".
