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On Mar 10, 12:04*am, Alan wrote:
1)M36=2.83 2)O36=ROUND(M36*1.075,2) 3)Q36=O36*110% 4)L36=1434 5)R36=L36*Q36 The R36 total is 4795.30 (wrong) When I used calculator to calcalate it, the correct total is 4789.56 (Formula is 3.34*1434=4789.56). The Excel result in R36 is correct (approximately) for the procedure that you describe. I suspect you are fooling yourself because some cells (notably Q36 and R36) are formatted with 2 decimal places. As you describe it, Q36 is actually about 3.344. That might __display__ as 3.34 due to cell formatting. But the __actual__ underlying value is still about 3.344. Consequently, the formula in R36 is effectively 3.344*1434, not 3.34*1434. The extra 0.004*1434 is sufficient to explain the difference that you see. Moreover, it should be noted that R36 is really about 4795.296, not 4795.30 -- again, because of the difference between the displayed value due to cell format and actual underlying value. This might propagate "error" (misunderstanding) throughout your worksheet. At a minimum, apparently you want the formula in Q36 to be =ROUND (O36*110%,2). It would be prudent to also change the formula in R36 to =ROUND(L36*Q36,2). |
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