Is there a more elegant way to cross-average?

ostrom808

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The big boss wants to average all combinations of 2 sets of 3 numbers - so he wants the average of 485 and 952; 485 and 740; and 485 and 219, for example. We started off with the plain old =AVERAGE($A4,B$3) and filled in the rest of the cells. But he wanted something like a pivot table (????) or a matrix function from linear algebra (????). :) Any help would be greatly appreciated!


...........952 740 219
485
210
357


We're using Excel 2003 and Windows XP.
 

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This is the answer he wanted. And we got it by using the simple average formula. But is there a cooler / fancier / more elegant way? Thanks!


...............952 740 219
485 718.5 612.5 352.0
210 581.0 475.0 214.5
357 654.5 548.5 288.0
 
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For your example of

952 740 219
485
210
357

I assumed 952 was in B1, 740 in C1, 219 in D1
485 in A2, 210 in A3, 357 in A4

So in cell B2 put the formula =AVERAGE($A2,B$1) and copy across and down.

Woohoohoohoooooo!

The Tig
 
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