game_over Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I've tallied some answers of questions in Excel. The answer was simply yes or no, and the same question was asked across various groups of people. I have got the percentage of each individual answer in each group of people eg.. GROUP 1 Q.1 - YES - 40% / NO - 60% Q.2 - YES - 38% / NO - 62% GROUP 1 Q.1 - YES - 70% / NO - 30% Q.2 - YES - 10% / NO - 90% and so on... but now i need to get the over all percentage of each question, out of 100%. I don't think i can basically add Q1 (40% + 70% = 110%). Is there a formula for something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +virtorio MVC Posted December 12, 2012 MVC Share Posted December 12, 2012 Calculate the average: Q1: (40+70)/2 = 55% voted yes (60+30)/2 = 45% voted no Q2: (38+10)/2 = 24% voted yes (62+90)/2 = 76% voted no Ideally it's better to work with the real data, but I think that's what you're after. -Himanshu- 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cheryl_27 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Depending on how accurate you need your overall (avg) %, you'd take the grand total of yes (or no) answers divided by total answers, for each question, as virtorio indicated. If need more accuracy, use actual data for the overall averages, instead of rounded off values, from step 1. Then round to desired # of decimal places. Of course, you must multiply (or have Excell convert decimals to %) decimal fractions x 100 to get percent. 110/2 = .55 x 100 = 55% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 game_over Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 Thanks for the replies, i'm pressing on with this now, numbers bend my head. Here is an actual row of data: 85.7% - 81.8% - 76.2% - 100.0% - 79.2% - 96.0% - 87.5% - 100.0% - 89.3% - 92.3% - What is the cumulative percentage? I believe what i'm looking for is the Cumulative Percentage, not totally sure what that means but i think it's the same as what i asked for in original post. the % out of 100? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 -Himanshu- Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Virtorio is right, you just need to calculate the average. Add all the percentages of yes or no, and divide by the total number of groups, and that's your required percentage of the particular choice. Thanks for the replies, i'm pressing on with this now, numbers bend my head. Here is an actual row of data: 85.7% - 81.8% - 76.2% - 100.0% - 79.2% - 96.0% - 87.5% - 100.0% - 89.3% - 92.3% - What is the cumulative percentage? I believe what i'm looking for is the Cumulative Percentage, not totally sure what that means but i think it's the same as what i asked for in original post. the % out of 100? Does that row show the percentage of people, who selected a particular choice, over 10 groups? In that case, 85.7+81.8+76.2+100+79.2+96+87.5+100+89.3+92.3/10 = 88.8 So, overall, 88.8% people selected that choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 game_over Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 Thats correct and thank you it looks right now. Formula: =SUM(B1:B10)/10 = 88.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I've tallied some answers of questions in Excel. The answer was simply yes or no, and the same question was asked across various groups of people.
I have got the percentage of each individual answer in each group of people eg..
GROUP 1
Q.1 - YES - 40% / NO - 60%
Q.2 - YES - 38% / NO - 62%
GROUP 1
Q.1 - YES - 70% / NO - 30%
Q.2 - YES - 10% / NO - 90%
and so on... but now i need to get the over all percentage of each question, out of 100%.
I don't think i can basically add Q1 (40% + 70% = 110%).
Is there a formula for something like this?
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