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Day 19

Saturday, 22 August 2026

Intermediate

Rank a sales contest without reordering the table

RANK reports where a number stands without moving it, and LARGE finds who's in second without sorting anything.

Task:

You run an inside-sales contest for a six-person team. This quarter's numbers are in front of you and management wants each rep placed 1 to 6, best first — but the sheet feeds a dashboard that reads rows by employee ID, so the rows themselves have to stay put. Work out each rep's rank in column C. The runner-up also gets a spot bonus worth 5% of the second-highest total, which nobody has a name for yet, so work that out in B8.

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