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Calculating averages, medians, minimums, and maximums

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Calculating averages, medians, minimums, and maximums

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- [Instructor] When you analyze business data, you will often want to discover what represents a typical value and what represents the maximum and minimum of the value range. There are a number of ways to calculate what are referred to as measures of central tendency, but I'll focus on the average and the median. I will also show you how to find the maximum and minimum values in a data set. As my sample file, I will use the average workbook, and you can find that in the Chapter Five folder of your exercise files collection. I have a data list here. It is a text table, and it shows the number of guests on a given day for the 20 properties where my company has a hotel. At the bottom, you can see that I have added a calculation that shows the grand total. And if I go over to the marks card, I see that I have the sum operation in place. And that is why we see the grand total at the bottom, which is the sum of all of the prior values. If I want to change the summary operation, then I can…

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