Resolved: Wrong Answer I think why not '-'?

in Introduction to Tableau / Working with joins in Tableau

why its '+' not '-'
while you say
#Gross Profit = Revenue - Cogs
so why
#SUM(Revenue)+SUM(Cogs)
is thy right answer?
not
SUM(Revenue) - SUM(Cogs)

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Ned Krastev

Instructor

Posted on:

15 Mar 2022

Hi Yossef,
Good to hear from you.
Cogs is already negative and we don't need to add a minus sign. This is the reason why the formula says SUM(Revenue) + SUM(Cogs).
Best,
Ned

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