I am currently doing a formula to find the overall grade for a student that has done 2 exams and 1 assignment.
I have made a formula that can achieve the task, but i have ran into a problem and I dont exactly understand why its giving me the incorrect answer.
As you can see in the screen shot provided you can see the 2 exams and 1 assignment, the grades are, A, A+, B+ which averaged should come out to a a value of 13.66 and as a grade as A (rounded upwards) but when i click out of the cell it shows a C+ and I dont understand why.
=INDEX(L$2:L$16,MATCH(SUMPRODUCT((E8:G8=L$2:L$16)*(M$2:M$16))/COUNTA(E8:G8), M$2:M$16,-1))
The quickest solution since you specified that its only for three scores, is to use the average of three separate lookups, something like:
=AVERAGE(VLOOKUP(E6,gradevalues,2,FALSE),VLOOKUP(F6,gradevalues,2,FALSE),VLOOKUP(G6,gradevalues,2,FALSE))
...where gradevalues is a named range representing the list of lettergrades-to-scores.
eg.,
Your original formula is exactly right.
After hand typing everything in from your example, it works flawlessly.
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I apologize if the title is a bit vague. I am trying to create a calculator that takes into account how much "scrap" I have, how much is needed to resmelt it, and how many bars recieved.
Currently using:
(=if((amtOwned/qtyToSmelt)<1,,rounddown((amtOwned/qtyToSmelt)*barsMade))
Table and Formula
The problem I am having is you MUST have the QTY to Smelt. But the value returned includes partial quantities.
Ex. 125 Bottle Caps should equal 4 Bars total. Yet it returns 5.
How can i make the formula only account for increments of the bars recieved?
Thank you for any help, again i apologize if this isn't that clear. Im not exactly sure how to express my need in this situation.
I have tried messing around with the syntax and where every argument sits, even this formula is the most recent iteration of what i thought would be needed.
EDIT: I have tried using the TRUNC function and this seems to be working as I need it to. The formula now is:
=TRUNC((AMTowned/AMTneeded),0)*barsRecieved
=TRUNC((136/50),0)*2 This is returning 2 bars instead of 3. Which is exactly what I need.
It appears this is working by truncating the number first then multiplying it. So, 1.5 becomes 1 before being multiplied. This was my guess after doing more research. I had been searching for a while before I posted this but am glad to have learned what I have in searching for this.
There is a tool for auditing formulas. To see it go to Formulas > Evaluate Formula.
So here is you formula =IF((E3/C3)<1,,ROUNDDOWN((E3/C3)*D3,0))
Have you tried the calculation on your regular calculator? To me it is doing what you would expect. (125/50)*2 = 5
I am preparing a weekly time-table for my school which looks like the following
The even rows contains course names, whereas the odd rows contain the teacher initials. Observe that a same paper is taken by more than one teacher (e.g., C10 C11 and G10 G11). I need to count the total number of classes per course per teacher in a week. Please help me to achieve that.
My efforts so far have been very inefficient.
I calculated the formula in B71 for each row in the entire time-table and added all the quantities in B70. However I need to have a comprehensive list of all courses with divisions for all teachers. I am not being able to generate that.
Thanks in advance.
You where pretty close in your attempt. You could use the following in B70 and fill down and to the right:
=COUNTIFS($C$10:$P$67,$A70,$C$11:$P$68,B$69)
So this is the simplified question I broke down from a former question I had here: Excel help on combination of Index - match and sumifs? .
For this one, I have Table1 (the black-gray one) with two or more columns for adjustments for various order numbers. See this image below:
What I want to achieve is to have total adjustments for those order numbers that contain the numbers in Total Adjustment column in the blue table, each of which will depend on the cell beside it.
Example: Order number 17051 has two products: 17051A (Apple) and 17051B (Orange).
Now what I want to achieve in cell C10 is the sum of adjustment for both 17051A and 17051B, which will be: Apple Adjustment (5000) + Orange Adjustment (4500) = 9500.
The formula I used below (and in the image) kept giving me error messages, and this happens even before I add the adjustment for Orange.
=SUMIF(Text(LEFT(Table1[Order Number],5),"00000"),text(B10,"00000"),Table1[Apple Adjustment])
I have spent the whole day looking for a solution for this and didn’t even come close to find any. Any suggestion is appreciated.
Assuming your headers always have the text "adjustment" in them, you could use:
=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT($B$4:$B$7,5)=B10&"")*(RIGHT($C$3:$F$3,10)="adjustment")*$C$4:$F$7)
In C10 you could add two sumproducts. This assumes that products are always 5 numbers long at the start. If not swop the 5 to use the length of the product reference part you are matching on.
=SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT($B$4:$B$7,5)=$B10),$D$4:$D$7)+SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT($B$4:$B$7,5)=$B10),$F$4:$F$7)
Which with table syntax is:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],5)=$B10),Table1[Apple Adjustment])+SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],5)=$B10),Table1[Orange Adjustment])
Using LEN
=SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],LEN($B10))=$B10),Table1[Apple Adjustment])+SUMPRODUCT(--(1*LEFT(Table1[Order Number],LEN($B10))=$B10),Table1[Orange Adjustment])
I am multiplying by 1 to ensure Left, 5 becomes numeric.
I'm having problems trying to do this formula and it just doesn't work. Can anyone help me?
=IF(JH2="13",CEILING(JD2/0.68+13,0.5)-0.01,""),IF(AND(JH2="6.95",(JD2/0.68))<50,CEILING(JD2/0.68+3,0.5)-0.01,CEILING(JD2/0.68+6.95,0.5)-0.01),IF(AND(M2="CA",ISNUMBER(SEARCH(S2,"INCONTINENCE"))),CEILING(JD2/0.68+6.95,0.5)-0.01,""))
Just a FYI it reads,
IF Freight price is 13 THEN to Divide the Cost price by .68 and ADD the 13.
IF Freight price is 6.95 AND the Cost Price Divide .68 is LESS than $50 THEN add $3.00 ELSE ADD 6.95.
IF M2 (which is Unit of Measurement) has CA AND Column S2 (which is the category) contains the word "Incontinence" THEN calculate Cost Price Divide .68 and add 6.95 Regardless.
Everything is rounded up.
But can't get the Damn thing to work.
First some nagging and whining.
Unreadable source code.
Reference to cells without provided values.
Now the answer (at least a part of it, depending on me missing something else).
If you start breaking up the formula, you'll notice that the first AND has the condition of equality first (that's correct) but then you'll see that the second condition only is a division, whereas the inequality comparison with 50 is put outside.
I believe that's your error. But that's based on the assumption that I got the formula correctly.
As a general suggestion for working with complex formulas in Excel, I usually do a single step at a time (putting the sub-results in separate columns to verify that they're correct). When done and confirmed, I can merge them into a single one.
Try this, it is untested:
=IFERROR(CEILING(IF(JH2=13,JD2/0.68+13,IF(AND(JH2=6.95,JD2/0.68<50),JD2/0.68+3,IF(JH2=6.95,JD2/0.68+6.95,IF(AND(M2="CA",ISNUMBER(SEARCH("INCONTINENCE",S2))),JD2/0.68+6.95,"")))),0.5)-0.01,"")
I have two columns. One with positive values and one with negative values. I need to find the absolute difference between the two columns.
What I am currently doing is the following: First of all, I edit both the columns to make all the values positive. Then I subtract the first column with the second column. I change any negative value to the positive one. Is this the same as the absolute difference?
Why not just use the ABS function
=ABS(B1-A1)
It sounds like what you're doing is actually
=ABS(ABS(B1)-ABS(A1))
which is not the same as
=ABS(B1-A1)
for example if you have -3 and 1 the first would give you 2 and the second would give 4. I don't know which one you want.
This works no matter which value is positive or negative:
=MAX(A1,B1) - MIN(A1,B1)
OK, so here's a pretty clunky workaround, but it is something where I can understand what's going on and works every time.
Here is my scenario where I needed to solve this problem. I had a system stock list showing 1 of these 10 of those but also showing -10 of these and 5 of those, and once entering my physical data from doing a stock take, I had pluses and minuses all over the place, so the data looked like this:
Physical stocktake value system value
0 0
1 0
1 2
0 -1
1 -1
Effectively all the different connotations of pluses and minuses.
so column 'a' is actual, column b is system
I created columns c,d,e,f ..... I warned you it was a little clunky, but it is sound in the result.
formula in column c = '=IF(A1>B1,A1+B1,A1-B1'
formula in column D = '=IF(B1+C1<>A1,A1-B1,C1)'
formula in column E = '=IF(D1>C1,C1,D1)'
Column E is the data you want, it rationalises all of the pluses and Minuses in your data to show a true difference (independent of positive and negative location) for the values you require.
Someone much cleverer than I will condense this down into a singular equation, but i read up on it, tried the current solutions/advise, and didn't have a clue what the techs were going on about, so came up with this faultless solution.
It does work and it s simply a transpose the A1's and B1's for your data content.
Hope it helps (a little).
I for one will check back, just to pick up on what the clever guys and gals come back with, just a case of life is to short to drive into this level of detail for a simple solution. Sometimes simple is best.
Yeah ok, set myself up for that one ..... so I'm simple, but I know what I'm doing and understand it ........