another solution to ignore the zero values (or blanks) in the range you
requested - enter this with control+shift+enter

=AVERAGE(IF(MOD(COLUMN($G$3:$S$3)-1,3)=0,IF($G$3:$S$30,$G$3:$S$3)))


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