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We know from the data that this value is correct!<br />

To get the relative frequencies, we want to divide each frequency by the constant 20. For<br />

<strong>in</strong>stance, the relative frequency of „A‟ would be 2/20 = 0.1. Instead of tell<strong>in</strong>g Excel to divide 2<br />

by 20, we will type the follow<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong>mula <strong>in</strong>to H7:<br />

= G7/$G$11<br />

Note that we lock cell G11 so that, when we copy this <strong>for</strong>mula to the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g cells, we<br />

cont<strong>in</strong>ue to divide by 20, the value <strong>in</strong> G11.<br />

It is neat to note that we can copy the <strong>for</strong>mula all the way down to H11, s<strong>in</strong>ce it will simply take<br />

20 and divide it by 20, <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g that the total is 1 or 100% of the data.<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 33

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