Excel AVERAGEIFS Function

AVERAGEIFS Function

TheAVERAGEIFS function is a premade function in Excel, which calculates theaverage of a range based on one or moretrue orfalsecondition.

It is typed=AVERAGEIFS:

Theconditions are referred to ascritera1, criteria2, .. and so on, which can check things like:

• If a number isgreater than another number>
• If a number issmaller than another number<
• If a number or text isequal to something=

Thecriteria_range1,criteria_range2, and so on, are the ranges where the function check for the conditions.

Theaverage_range is the range where the function calculates the average.

Example AVERAGEIFS function

Find the average defense of Grass type 1st Generation Pokemon:

The conditions are that the type is "Grass" and Generation is 1.

NameType 1DefenseGeneration BulbasaurGrass491TypeGen.Average Defense IvysaurGrass631Grass1 VenusaurGrass831Fire1 CharmanderFire431Grass2 CharmeleonFire581Fire2 CharizardFire781 ChikoritaGrass652 BayleefGrass802 MeganiumGrass1002 CyndaquilFire432 QuilavaFire582 TyphlosionFire782

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ExampleAVERAGEIFS function, step by step:

1. Select the cellH3
2. Type=AVERAGEIFS
3. Double click theAVERAGEIFS command

4. Specify the range for the averageC2:C13 (the Defense values)
5. Type,
6. Specify the range for the first conditionB2:B13 (the Type 1 values)
7. Type,
8. Specify the criteria (the cellF3, which has the value "Grass")
9. Type,
10. Specify the range for the second conditionD2:D13 (the Generation values)
11. Type,
12. Specify the criteria (the cellG3, which has the value "1")
13. Hit enter

The function now calculates the average defense value of the 1st Generation Grass type Pokemon: Bulbasaur, Ivysaur and Venusaur.

The function can be repeated for Fire type Pokemon and 2nd Generation to compare them:

Now, we can see the average defense values of each type between generations:

Notice how the 2nd Generation Grass type Pokemon got more defense, but the Fire type stayed the same.