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I have a column with percentages that are positive and negative.
How do I calculate the Average of the postive's and an Average of the
Negatives?

Bruce

One way:

=SUMIF(B1:B100,"0")/COUNTIF(B1:B100,"0")
=SUMIF(B1:B100,"<0")/COUNTIF(B1:B100,"<0")

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"Bruce" wrote in message
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I have a column with percentages that are positive and negative.
How do I calculate the Average of the postive's and an Average of the
Negatives?

Bruce

Bruce Wrote:
I have a column with percentages that are positive and negative.
How do I calculate the Average of the postive's and an Average of the
Negatives?

Bruce


If the numbers are in, say, A1:A100, then your formulas a

For the positives: =sumif(A1:A100,"0")/countif(A1:A100,"0")

For the negatives, just simply replace "0" with "<0"


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=AVERAGE(IF(A1:A200,A1:A20))
=AVERAGE(IF(A1:A20<0,A1:A20))

array entered using CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER, but what about the 0s, don't they fall
into one of the camps

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"Bruce" wrote in message
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I have a column with percentages that are positive and negative.
How do I calculate the Average of the postive's and an Average of the
Negatives?

Bruce




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