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Brendan O'Shaughnessy
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Sep 04, 2018
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Assistance with Performing Mathematical Formulas with 2 Parts

Hi everyone,   I have a dataset that has a value (we'll say 2.1 million) and what I am looking to do is subtract out 3 million and then 20% of that value. Now I can do this by hand, but obviously, ...
  • Philip West's avatar
    Sep 04, 2018

    is your data in 2 columns? I'm going to assume it is, and in column A and B.

     

    you could use a formula like this:

    =MAX(0,(A2-B2)*0.2)

    or

    MAX(0,(2100000-1500000)*0.2) = 120000

    MAX(0,(2100000-3000000)*0.2) = 0