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noble10
Frequent Visitor

Ratio calculation

Hello 

 

Can someone please show me a measure of how to calculate the ratio of two numbers. The screenshot below shows how I completed the ratio in excel but how do I achieve this through power bi dax measure?  Thanks!

 

noble10_0-1634855059079.png

 

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v-robertq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @noble10 

According to your description, I can clearly understand your requirement, you can try to create a calculated column like this:

Ratio =

var _GCD=GCD([item],[product])

return

DIVIDE([product],_GCD)&":"&DIVIDE([item],_GCD)

 

And you can get what you want, like this:

vrobertqmsft_0-1635491363462.png

 

You can download my test pbix file below

Thank you very much!

 

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Robert Qin

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-robertq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @noble10 

According to your description, I can clearly understand your requirement, you can try to create a calculated column like this:

Ratio =

var _GCD=GCD([item],[product])

return

DIVIDE([product],_GCD)&":"&DIVIDE([item],_GCD)

 

And you can get what you want, like this:

vrobertqmsft_0-1635491363462.png

 

You can download my test pbix file below

Thank you very much!

 

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Robert Qin

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

VahidDM
Super User
Super User

Hi @noble10 

Try this:

 

Measure = 
VAR _A =
    MAX ( [Production] ) // X in the excel formula
VAR _B =
    MAX ( [Item] ) // Y in the excel formula
VAR _GCD =
    GCD ( _A_B )
RETURN
    _A / _GCD & ":" & _B / _GCD

 

If this post helps, please consider accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Appreciate your Kudos!!

 

@VahidDM  

 

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately that formula above did not work. Production and Items are measures that I have created. I got the error message below. 

noble10_0-1634918832520.png

 

 

 

 

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