How to Count Cells Defined by a Percentile

[greasebucket]

I'm having trouble nesting COUNTIF and PERCENTILE formulas.
I want to count the number of cells in a row that exceed a threshold level that I define using the PERCENTILE function.
If I want to count all the cells from E2 to BB2 that exceed the 90th Percentile of all of the values from E2 to BB9, I think the command to do this should be:

=COUNTIF(E2:BB2,">(PERCENTILE(E2:BB9,0.9))")

When I use this command, there is no error with the command, but all of the values turn out to be zero.

Any tips on correcting this apparently incorrect formula?

Thanks Much!

 

[whitespace]

Does this work?

=COUNTIF(E2:BB2,">"&(PERCENTILE(E2:BB9,0.9)))

 

[greasebucket]

yes, it works!
thanks VERY MUCH for your suggestion!!