Formula For Calculating An Average

I have the below formula in a group footer (Group Footer #1) that is suppose to calculate the average between the accumlated number of days (i.e. {@Days Taken}) divided by the number of records (i.e. Count (). The value for the number of days is correct and the value for the record count is correct. For some reason the value for the average is not correct. The average is not re-calculating when there is a new group. The average is repeated for each group. Is there anything wrong with this formula ?
Sum ({@Days Taken})/Count ()

Lenell,
You need to tell it to divide the sums per group.
So;
Sum ({@Days Taken},)/Count (,)
Replace with the field that you are grouping on.

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Formula for calculating the average takings for a given day in the week?

I would like to calculate the average takings for each day of the week for a given financial year.

Rick,
I've looked at your document, made some additions and returned it to you. In your document you were not only using AVERAGE, but also MIN and MAX. Unfortunately, MIN and MAX don't have "IF" versions, so they can't be used to selectively operate on data matching criteria in a range.
What I did to accommodate the need for MIN and MAX was to add a column for each criteria, in this case the different days of the week.
In your document you also indicated the need for a Chart to graphically summarize the performance by day of the week. I rearranged your summary stats table to facilitate creating a chart from that table. I chose the mixed category chart with Bars for Min and Max and a Line for Average.
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For Monday Minimum:
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You had pre-filled Column A with 3-letter abbreviations of the Days of the Week. I am not sure this is important, since you could have formatted the Date (Column B) to show the same information, but I didn't like seeing the abbreviations for days that didn't have data entered yet so I replaced the text with an expression...
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Pls tell me the exact formula for calculation of Safty Stock with quality example

Pls tell me the exact formula for calculation of Safty Stock with quality example

Hi Devendra,
safety stock is a quantity of stock which should be planned to be in inventory to protect against fluctuations in demand or supply. Therefore it is considered in planning.
The Product Planning Details screen is mainly a planning screen, giving an overview on the planning situation for a product in a planning area. The projected stock reflects the planning behavior, displaying the shortages relevant for the planning run.
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hope it help you.
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Formula for calculating aggregate percentage and percenatge of gender

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please reply..its urgent
Here is a tip: if you want to tick off people from helping you, you should absolutely include "urgent" in your post. That's a good way to encourage people to move to the next post. I did see this one earlier today, but did not have the time.
Anyway, I cannot really make out heads or tails of your question. Your output takes about gender, but I cannot see it in the output from the query, which appears to group by "Foreign" and StateName. How does the boys and girls get into the picture?
And for that matter that "totals" column?
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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1. The system uses the defined parameters to determine the number of days used for calculating the average daily requirements. If the period is defined as a week, the period length as standard days (5 days) and the number of periods as 2, the system divides the total of the requirements by 10 days.
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3/3/2009     10     31
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Hi,
In addition to my previous reply,
If you did following setting -
Range of coverage in first period -
min - blank
tgt - 7
max - blank
number of periods - blank
The system will calculate the safety stock for 7 days for each period; i.e., 7*3=21 and it will generate plnd orders as
week1 = 51
week2 = 14+21 = 35
week3 = 10+21 = 31
week4 = 30+21 = 51
If you want to restrict your calculation till 2 periods then make following settings -
Range of coverage in first period -
min - blank
tgt - 7
max - blank
number of periods - 2
Range of coverage in second period -
Make all blank
Range of coverage in the rest of the horizon -
min - blank
tgt - 3
max - blank
It means for first two weeks the safety stock will be 21 (equivalent to 7 days) and for rest of the horizon it will be 3*3 = 9 (equivalent to 3 days)
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week 1 = 51
week 2 = 35
week 3 = 14+9 = 23
week 4 = 30+9 = 39
and so on.
Regards,
Amol

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default for BG_TERMINATION_TYPE is 'L'
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DEFAULT FOR ELEMENT_NAME_ADDITIONAL_ASG_GRE_ITD     IS 0
DEFAULT FOR ELEMENT_NAME_REPLACEMENT_ASG_GRE_ITD     IS 0
DEFAULT FOR ELEMENT_NAME_ASG_GRE_YTD IS 0
DEFAULT FOR ELEMENT_NAME_ASG_GRE_RUN IS 0
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Default for PAY_EARNED_END_DATE is '02-JAN-0001' (DATE)
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(PAYROLL_TERMINATION_TYPE = 'A' AND
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FINAL_PAY_PROCESSED = 'N') OR
(PAYROLL_TERMINATION_TYPE WAS DEFAULTED AND
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TERMINATED_EMPLOYEE = 'Y' AND
LAST_STANDARD_PROCESS_DATE_PROCESSED = 'N') OR
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(neg_earn = flat_amount - ELEMENT_NAME_NEG_EARNINGS_ASG_GRE_ITD
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(IF ELEMENT_NAME_NEG_EARNINGS_ASG_GRE_ITD <> 0 THEN
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BG_TERMINATION_TYPE = 'A' AND
TERMINATED_EMPLOYEE = 'Y' AND FINAL_PAY_PROCESSED = 'N') OR
( PAYROLL_TERMINATION_TYPE = 'A' AND
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(PAYROLL_TERMINATION_TYPE WAS DEFAULTED AND
BG_TERMINATION_TYPE = 'A' AND
TERMINATED_EMPLOYEE = 'Y' AND FINAL_PAY_PROCESSED = 'Y'
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Can anyone help me in solving this problem. Any kind of pointers would be helpful.
Thanks
Pradeep.

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I have a table in `PowerPivot` which contains the logged data of a traffic control camera mounted on a road. This table is filled the velocity and the number of vehicles that pass this camera during a specific time(e.g. 14:10 - 15:25). Now I want to know
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According to your description, you need to calculated the average value of Vel group on Count and Hour, right?
I have tested it on my local environment, the sample expression below is for you reference.
=CALCULATE(sum(Sample[Vel]),ALLEXCEPT(Sample,Sample[Count],Sample[Hour]))
If this is not what you want, please elaborate the issue, so that we can make further analysis.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support
Thank you,
Yes it works. But I decided to use a 'measure' rather than a calculated column. My measure's formula is:
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I really hope somone can help. I cannot find any answers to my questions on the internet, google etc.
First time using Acrobat. Im pretty quick learning on compters however the formulas my boss has asked me to do I have no idea if they are possible.
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As the title says- I'm not much of a formula wizard and any help would be appreciated. Here's an example-
Student A receives a B, C, A, A, D, A for 6 assignments. I want them to average out at the end of the row, as well as an average on a separate page of summaries for all subjects that are assessed this way.
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I basically want a formula where I can average Letters out to a B- or C+. Can I do this from just letters alone or do I need to assign numbers. Speaking to my curriculum coordinator, she said stick to LETTERS and see if we can sort out something for that as we don't officially report in numbers.
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AVERAGE, which calculates the arithmetic mean of a set of values, works with numerical values.
On your posted layout, you have a table showing the letter equivalent of a percentage score:
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A score 85 or higher = A
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Your layout includes nine numerical scores for the first student (all of which are well under 40. My assumption here is that each is the student's score out of the number in the same column of row 3 (ie, the first, 13, is 13 out of 14, the second is 10 out of 16, etc,)
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Does each point noted contribute equally to the final average?
Or
Does each quiz/exercise contribute equally to the final average?
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For the letter grades and number grades to be combined into a single final letter grade, the numerical equivalents noted above must be chosen with that goal in mind, OR the numerical scores must be converted into letter grades, then reconverted into specific numerical equivalents for each letter grade, inserted into the set of (converted) letter grades, averaged, then reconverted to the equivalent letter grade.
As you can see, there are yet a few hurdles to overcome.
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Barry

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