Thanks for your help. Your way is another way to do it but I am still showing the #DIV/O! error message when a cell is left blank.
this is what i used
=IF(AVERAGE(CE27:CI27) <= 1.74,"latent",
LOOKUP(AVERAGE(CE27:CI27),{1.75;2.25;3.25},{"emerging";"established";"advance"}))
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[TD="align: right"]4
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[TD="align: right"]4
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[TD]advance
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[TD]emerging
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[TD="align: right"]3
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[TD="align: right"]1
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[TD]emerging
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[TD="align: center"]#DIV/0!
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I am also trying out IFERRORS in the code but it doesn't seem to work.
=IFERROR(AVERAGE(CE27:CI27) <= 1.74,"latent",
LOOKUP(AVERAGE(CE27:CI27),{1.75;2.25;3.25},{"emerging";"established";"advance"}))
Any Ideas?