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# **AVERAGE skips blank cells**

Tuesday has no sales figure yet. In B7, use AVERAGE on B2:B6 to get the average of the days that do have one.

B7fx

|  | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Day | Sales |  |  |  | |
| 2 | Monday | 120 |  |  |  | |
| 3 | Tuesday |  |  |  |  | |
| 4 | Wednesday | 90 |  |  |  | |
| 5 | Thursday | 150 |  |  |  | |
| 6 | Friday | 60 |  |  |  | |
| 7 |  |  |  |  |  | |
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