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calculate average given minutes and seconds
I'm trying to calculate the average minutes and seconds for a given task. We
have 4 sets of minutes and seconds. I want the minutes and seconds to display as mm:ss but when I select this as a format it seems to round off to nearest minute. I want the resulting average to display as mm:ss also. Can someone please tell me the correct format to use in Excel 2007 to get mm:ss and also the formula to calculate the average. |
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Answer: calculate average given minutes and seconds
To display minutes and seconds in the format mm:ss:
To calculate the average of the minutes and seconds data:
This will calculate the average of the minutes and seconds data and display it in the selected cell. To format the result as mm:ss, you can apply the custom number format as described above.
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calculate average given minutes and seconds
Assuming your times are in A1:A4, put this in A5:
=AVERAGE(A1:A4) If the first 4 cells are formatted as [mm]:ss, I would expect A5 to take the same format when you enter the formula, but if not then choose Custom in the Format cells dialogue box and set it to [mm]:ss. You should note that if your time is 4 minutes and 30 seconds, for example, and you enter 4:30, then Excel will take this as meaning 4 hours and 30 minutes, even though it will display as 4:30. You need to enter the data as 0:4:30 or as 4:30.0 - this might be what caused you the problem. Hope this helps. Pete On Jun 25, 12:05*am, Cathy T <Cathy wrote: I'm trying to calculate the average minutes and seconds for a given task. *We have 4 sets of minutes and seconds. *I want the minutes and seconds to display as mm:ss but when I select this as a format it seems to round off to nearest minute. *I want the resulting average to display as mm:ss also. * Can someone please tell me the correct format to use in Excel 2007 to get mm:ss and also the formula to calculate the average. |
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calculate average given minutes and seconds
Cathy,
It always helps to show what you did and what the result is. This is what I did In A1:A3 I entered some times (mins:sec) 0:02:23 0:04:45 0:06:45 0:04:38 In A5 I used =AVERAGE(A1:A3) I can format everything with custom format mm:ss so as to not display hours How does this differ from what you did? best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme remove caps from email "Cathy T" <Cathy wrote in message ... I'm trying to calculate the average minutes and seconds for a given task. We have 4 sets of minutes and seconds. I want the minutes and seconds to display as mm:ss but when I select this as a format it seems to round off to nearest minute. I want the resulting average to display as mm:ss also. Can someone please tell me the correct format to use in Excel 2007 to get mm:ss and also the formula to calculate the average. |
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Thanks for the replies. I guess while trying to be concise and not overload
with too much information I did not give enough. Sorry. I was able to get it to work using the hours yesterday before I posted. I am not that familiar with Excel 97 and when I tried to format using the mm:ss (I also did not key a 0 as the hour when I used this format) I got the rounding errors I described earlier. I will try keying the hours and using the mm:ss format and see if that works. |
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THANKS! I used the spreadhseet where I had entered with the hours hh:mm:ss
and then just reformatted to the mm:ss and no more rounding error. "Cathy T" wrote: I'm trying to calculate the average minutes and seconds for a given task. We have 4 sets of minutes and seconds. I want the minutes and seconds to display as mm:ss but when I select this as a format it seems to round off to nearest minute. I want the resulting average to display as mm:ss also. Can someone please tell me the correct format to use in Excel 2007 to get mm:ss and also the formula to calculate the average. |
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