You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback!

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Carl_B" wrote in message
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:-) I have an issue with over doing the parentheses.
And I realize that more is not necessarily better!

Thank you, and thanks to Pete and Stan as well.

"T. Valko" wrote:

Using
{=AVERAGE(IF((A2:A9176="philadelphia"),(I2:I9176) ))}
produces the correct result

OK, now get rid of the unnecessary parentheses.

Array entered:

=AVERAGE(IF(A2:A9176="philadelphia",I2:I9176))

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Carl_B" wrote in message
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Using
{=AVERAGE(IF((A2:A9176="philadelphia"),(I2:I9176)) )}
produces the correct result

"Carl_B" wrote:


I have a worksheet with 5 city names in column A and dollar amounts in
column I.
I need to calculate the average amount for each city.
I use the array formula
{=AVERAGE(I2:I9176*(A2:A9176="philadelphia"))}
and
get 621.45. I also did this using an average value calculation in a
Pivot
Table and got the result 1987.54 for Philadelphia. The other 4 cities
had
similar discrepancies.

Is there something wrong with the array formula (No I did not type the
brackets) or am I interpreting the two results incorrectly?
Thanks,
Carl


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