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    I want to work out the biggest combination of a set of numbers

    Hi there, first post on this forum so basically I have 200 numbers I want too find out what the biggest number I can get with any 100 of them so for example if I had ten numbers:
    2
    3
    4
    6
    6
    7
    8
    9
    1
    Id want the biggest number five of them added together is, is there an easy way to do this in excel? For instance in the example the biggest combination of 5 numbers would be 36 however i need to do this on a much larger scale so is there a way to automate it?

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    Re: I want to work out the biggest combination of a set of numbers

    maybe =SUMPRODUCT(LARGE(A1:A9,ROW(1:5)))

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    Re: I want to work out the biggest combination of a set of numbers

    Just type the 200 numbers into column A.
    Sort column A in reverse order.
    Then in a blank cell =SUM(A1:A100)
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