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7. Aggregate Functions

Mandeep Mehta1  
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Mumbai, India
 
In this chapter, we will look into aggregate functions, which are generally used to do the following:
  • Sum values

  • Count values

  • Average values

We will begin with functions that help do summations.

SUM Function

The SUM function is used to sum one or more numbers in a range of cells or literal values.

Syntax

=SUM(value1, [value2], ....)
The SUM function can take up to 255 arguments, as follows:
  • The first argument is mandatory. The remaining arguments are optional.

  • The arguments supplied to the SUM function can be a single cell reference, a cell range, or a literal numeric value.

Example

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