The formula below calculates the weighted average of. However there is an easy fix to that. Adding all the numbers together and dividing by 4 gives each number equal weight resulting in an average of 89.
Calculate the SUMPRODUCT ie multiply each value by its weight and then calculate their sum in order to get.
So basically all the data points are given equal weights when we calculated the simple mean. In excel we frequently come across the situation where we need weighted average or weighted mean to have an insight about the overall average. To understand the concept of weighted averages its important to remember that finding the regular average arithmetic mean of the above numbers is really saying that each number carries a value of a quarter ΒΌ of the whole. This is because Excel doesnt provide a function in the Pivot Table that automatically calculates the weighted average.