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    Finding unknown value

    I'm having trouble trying to find an unknown value for a spreadsheet. Maybe there is some formula that can help me?

    C1=B1/A1
    C2=B2/A2
    etc...

    A5=SUM(A1:A4)
    B5=SUM(B1:B4)
    C5=SUM(C1:C4)

    I want to have C6 show how much "B" column to subtract to get the value I want (15%) in C5. Maybe C5 says 64%, but I need to know if I want C5 to equal 15%, then I need to subtract "X".

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    Re: Finding unknown value

    Hi Visigoth and welcome to the forum

    i would suggest you upload a sample work book, (all sensitive data removed), showing what data you are working with, a few examples of what your expected outcome is, and how you arrived at that
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    Re: Finding unknown value

    Ok, I appreciate the advice. I've attached a workbook that is a little different than my description. In the workbook I'm trying to get F12 to equal the amount of "# of waivers" needed to be subtracted to get the total "% of waivers" down to 15%. I can manually figure it out, but if I could understand a formula that makes it automatic, it'd greatly reduce working time. My "formula knowledge" is pretty limited.
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    Re: Finding unknown value

    Well one problem is that total% is not additive. You need to calculate total waivers percentage as total completions divided by total waivers, which in your cases is only 8.63%. If you did exceed your 15% mark though, this is the formula;
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    Re: Finding unknown value

    1st, remove all the merging you have there, it will cause problems with formulas leter on.

    2nd, for D9, you cannot add the % together, you have to calc then the same way you did for all the others...
    =C9/B9 (these are the references after I removed the extra columns)
    then use swhitsel's formula

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    Re: Finding unknown value

    Thank you everyone!

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    Re: Finding unknown value

    Happy to help, and thanks for the feedback, guys

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