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Default How can I find percentages of a number

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:03 -0700 from Toppers
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"Finding percentages" wrote:
I have a project that needs to be completed today. I have 21 surveys and I
need to find the average percentage?


Do you simply mean an average of cells which are already %s?

=AVERAGE(A1:A10)

A1:A10 contains % values


That may or may not be a good procedure. It depends on the bases of
the percents.

For instance, if you have 10/100 = 10% and 2/10 = 20%, the average is
not 15%. Instead, you must compute (10+2)/(100+10) which is 10.91%.

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