percentage calculation

[sumesh56]

hai everybody,
i have a column containing marks of students. say E4:E35.
the marks of individual students is in out of 90.
i need to calculate the class average of the marks in 100.
i used the following formula but excel gives me error.

=SUM(((E4:E35)/32))/90*100

help me plz. thanks. have a nice day

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[isabelle]

hi sumesh56,

=SUM(E4:E35)/32/90*100

 

[plinius]

Il 13/10/2012 03:20, sumesh56 ha scritto:

hai everybody,
i have a column containing marks of students. say E4:E35.
the marks of individual students is in out of 90.
i need to calculate the class average of the marks in 100.
i used the following formula but excel gives me error.

=SUM(((E4:E35)/32))/90*100

help me plz. thanks. have a nice day.


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=AVERAGE(E4:E35)/90*100

E.

 

[sumesh56]

Il 13/10/2012 03:20, sumesh56 ha scritto:-


=AVERAGE(E4:E35)/90*100

E.

thanks a lot for both Isabella and Plinius for the reply. very happy t
find that both the formulas works for me. but can u plz explain wher
was the text occured in between the numbers which caused for the error

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[plinius]

Il 14/10/2012 04:54, sumesh56 ha scritto:

thanks a lot for both Isabella and Plinius for the reply. very happy to
find that both the formulas works for me. but can u plz explain where
was the text occured in between the numbers which caused for the error?


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Removing unnecessary brackets, your formula is:

=SUM(E4:E35/32)/90*100

E4:E35 is not a single value dividing by 32 but a matrix, therefore it
is a matricial formula and can work correctly only if confirmed by
CONTROL+SHIFT+RETURN

Hi,
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