A Mathsy question about averages.

Sep 15, 2004 16:54

Ok, You have a table like this:

AsBsCs
5320
23200

You want to know the average percentage of As and Bs to Cs(that is: (As + Bs)/Cs )
Is it correct to:
  1. Add up all the As, add up all the Bs, add up all the Cs, then find the percentile: 5+2=7, 3+3=6, 20+200=220, percent = 13/220 =5.9%ish
  2. Work out the two percentages, then average them: percent1 = 8/ ( Read more... )

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Sleight of Hand numb3r5 September 15 2004, 10:25:07 UTC
Background: Communitive, Transitive, and something else ( ... )

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mikaila September 16 2004, 04:52:12 UTC
No! It doesn't make sense!!!

*throws daggers at evil maths equation*

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