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  1. 07-08-2019, 08:48 AM #1
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    How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    I have this data set. I need to calculate average of top 3 of another column.

    I googled, I couldn't figured out this. And more thing is there are blank cells as well in the data.

    I am attaching a sample excel sheet. Please find the attachment.

    Average values in Column B based on Top 3 values of Column A

    Average values in Column C based on Top 3 values of Column D

    Currently I am using conditional formatting to highlight the cells of top values and manually select adjacent cells to know the average. I would to have a formula for this. Any help would be appreciated.

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    Re: How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    The attached workbook looks nothing like the screenshot ... It has only two columns and no CF.
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    Re: How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    Tried this, but only returning the average of top 1 value.
    =AVERAGEIFS(B2:B11,A2:A11,LARGE(A2:A11,{1,2,3}))

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    Re: How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    Both Average and Averageif function returning just the top value.

    I tried the same with sumif function, it works for the addition part. But to average I had to manually type in number of top values with no blank cells
    =(SUMIF(A2:A11,LARGE(A2:A11,1),B2:B11)+SUMIF(A2:A11,LARGE(A2:A11,2),B2:B11)+SUMIF(A2:A11,LARGE(A2:A11,3),B2:B11))/2 >>> It's 2 because there are only two cells with values.

    For now I will use this until I get a better formula.
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    Re: How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    Perhaps the following formula will be helpful:
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    Re: How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    Or try:

    =AVERAGE(IF((A2:A11=LARGE(A2:A11,{1,2,3}))*(B2:B11<>""),B2:B11))

    Enter with Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeteMc View Post
    Perhaps the following formula will be helpful:
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    Or try:

    =AVERAGE(IF((A2:A11=LARGE(A2:A11,{1,2,3}))*(B2:B11<>""),B2:B11))

    Enter with Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
    Thank you guys. Both works fine.

    In the first formula,
    Instead of blanks in the column B, if I put hyphen (-) it returns #VALUE!
    Other than that both the formula works fine.

    Thank you so much.
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    Re: How to Average values of Top/bottom 3 of another column

    Thank You for the feedback and for marking the thread as 'Solved'. I hope that you have a blessed day.
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