Excel formula to get the lowest n values from a range

Question

I have some values in a column which are not necesarily sorted. Then I want to find the average of the lowest n values from the column with the values.

So let's take the example above. Say I need to average n=3 lowest values from the column above with values ranging from A1 to A10 . The result will be the average of 1 (taken from A1), 2 (taken from A6) and 3 (taken from A2). I am thinking of something like AVERAGE(LOWEST_N(A1:A10, 3)) but I'm not sure it can be as simple as that.

Note: I can't sort the values on that specific column. I also do not wish to manually move the values to another column and sort them there, because I want to do this many multiple times and I need to automate the process.

Answer 1

您可以使用数组公式，使用Ctrl，Shift和Enter进行确认。

=AVERAGE(SMALL(A1:A10,ROW(1:3)))

Answer 2

试试这个： =AVERAGEIF(A1:A10, "<4")