try:

=MEDIAN(INDIRECT("A1:A"&INT(COUNTA(A:A)/4)))

This rounds down so that if there are 27 numbers, median is calculated as A1
to A6 ....should it be A1 to A7?

HTH

"flyingmeatball" wrote:

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> In Column A I have the ages of a random number of people. I need to
> take the median of the top 25% of this list. First I sorted the list,
> and now i need to run Median(A1:AX) Where X is the cell that equals 25%
> of my total population. My problem is the population(and thus the
> number of rows used) is constantly changing. How can I put in a value
> for AX into this equation? Thanks in advance.
> Karl
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