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The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott
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"scott45" wrote in message
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The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing
the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly
appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


On what basis do you think you should be getting the answer 178?

if F22 is 1826, then F22*71449 is 130,465,874 (over 130 million)

Even if you've got your 2nd bit wrong, dividing by 16147 gives 8080 to the
nearest whole number.

Even if you actually meant

(0.4*(F22*71449))/(C22*16147)

that still gives an answer of 299 and a bit doesn't it?

by the way, your original formula gives 52,187,845 in my spreadsheet!


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"scott45" wrote:

The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 10.8
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 1826

Thank you Scott

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"scott45" wrote in message
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The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing
the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly
appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


The closest I could get to your number 178 was replacing the original * with
a ^

=((F22*71449)^0.4)+16147 which gives 17909.78....

if you were dividing by something close to 100 (100.6 or something), it
would give around 178, so maybe your C22 is the wrong value?

=(((F22*71449)^0.4)+16147)/C22 (gives 178 only if C22 is 100.6ish



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Lee

Look at my second post I had two numbers turned around
10.8*71449=71649
71649*.4=308659
308659+16147=324806
324806/1826=177.87

Thanks Scott

"Lee Harris" wrote:


"scott45" wrote in message
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The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing
the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly
appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


On what basis do you think you should be getting the answer 178?

if F22 is 1826, then F22*71449 is 130,465,874 (over 130 million)

Even if you've got your 2nd bit wrong, dividing by 16147 gives 8080 to the
nearest whole number.

Even if you actually meant

(0.4*(F22*71449))/(C22*16147)

that still gives an answer of 299 and a bit doesn't it?

by the way, your original formula gives 52,187,845 in my spreadsheet!





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Lee

Check previous post
I can get the correct answer by figuring part of the problem in a different
cell but I really did not want to do it that way.

Thanks Scott

"Lee Harris" wrote:


"scott45" wrote in message
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The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing
the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly
appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


The closest I could get to your number 178 was replacing the original * with
a ^

=((F22*71449)^0.4)+16147 which gives 17909.78....

if you were dividing by something close to 100 (100.6 or something), it
would give around 178, so maybe your C22 is the wrong value?

=(((F22*71449)^0.4)+16147)/C22 (gives 178 only if C22 is 100.6ish




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Lee

Look at my second post I had two numbers turned around
10.8*71449=71649
71649*.4=308659
308659+16147=324806
324806/1826=177.87

Thanks Scott

"Lee Harris" wrote:


What you want then is this, (isn't that what you had originally. It worked
for me when I put 1826 in C22 and 10.8 in F22

=((0.4*(F22*71449))+16147)/C22





"scott45" wrote in message
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The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing
the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly
appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


On what basis do you think you should be getting the answer 178?

if F22 is 1826, then F22*71449 is 130,465,874 (over 130 million)

Even if you've got your 2nd bit wrong, dividing by 16147 gives 8080 to
the
nearest whole number.

Even if you actually meant

(0.4*(F22*71449))/(C22*16147)

that still gives an answer of 299 and a bit doesn't it?

by the way, your original formula gives 52,187,845 in my spreadsheet!





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Hi

Try
=((F22*71449*0.4)+16147)/C22
It returns 177.8788

Regards

Roger Govier


scott45 wrote:
The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott

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Thanks so much Roger. I knew it would be just the position of the () I just
couldnt get it Thanks again.

Scott

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi

Try
=((F22*71449*0.4)+16147)/C22
It returns 177.8788

Regards

Roger Govier


scott45 wrote:
The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


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Roger

One other thing. I show a value error when there is no info in the cells I
use. Is it possible to hide the value error?

thanks Scott

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi

Try
=((F22*71449*0.4)+16147)/C22
It returns 177.8788

Regards

Roger Govier


scott45 wrote:
The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott




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Hi Scott

Try
=IF(C220,((F22*71449*0.4)+16147)/C22,"")

The lack of info in cell F22 won't cause a problem as it will return 0 after
the multiplication, but the lack of a value in C22 would cause a divide by
zero error. The formula above will trap for this.

Regards

Roger Govier


scott45 wrote:
Roger

One other thing. I show a value error when there is no info in the cells I
use. Is it possible to hide the value error?

thanks Scott

"Roger Govier" wrote:


Hi

Try
=((F22*71449*0.4)+16147)/C22
It returns 177.8788

Regards

Roger Govier


scott45 wrote:

The following formula shoud give an answer of 178. I think I am placing the
parenthesis in the wrong position. If you can help it is greatly appreciated.
The answer I get is 308669

=(((F22*71449)*0.4)+16147/C22)

Cell-F22 number is 1826
71449 is a constant number
0.4 is a constant number
16147 is a constant number
Cell-C22 is 10.8

Thank you Scott


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