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I need to write a forumla to drop the lowest 2 quiz grades...
How do I remove the lowest 2 values in a row and then average the rest?
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Default remove lowest 2 values in a row?

Suppose you have values from A1 to J1

=(SUM(A1:J1)-SMALL(A1:J1,1)-SMALL(A1:J1,2))/(COUNT(A1:J1)-2)

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I need to write a forumla to drop the lowest 2 quiz grades...
How do I remove the lowest 2 values in a row and then average the rest?
Thanks in advance,
Ari

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Thanks,
the SMALL() function is exactly what I was looking for,
Ari

"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

Suppose you have values from A1 to J1

=(SUM(A1:J1)-SMALL(A1:J1,1)-SMALL(A1:J1,2))/(COUNT(A1:J1)-2)

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Jacob Skaria


"Ari" wrote:

I need to write a forumla to drop the lowest 2 quiz grades...
How do I remove the lowest 2 values in a row and then average the rest?
Thanks in advance,
Ari

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