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argnist
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Divide one summarized column by another

Hi all,

 

does anyone know the way to divide one summarized column over to another summarized column?

 

When I try something like SUM (Total Sales) / SUM (Items Sold) it calculates it for each item (for Laptop 1, Laptop 2, etc.) instead of the for the group of items (Laptop and Phones)

 

 

Here is a Matrix visual I have in Power BI (the 3rd column, which I need to calculate is simply Total Sales/Items Sold)

 

Item CategoryTotal SalesItems SoldAverage per item
Laptops         970,000              9701000
Phones         500,000              625800

 

 

This is how the original data set looks like:

 

ItemTotal SoldItems Sold
Laptop 170012
Laptop 280010
Laptop 3100014
Laptop 495010
Phone 170024
Phone 275065
Phone 380017

 

My question might be confusing - but please let me know if I can explain more.

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argnist
Frequent Visitor

It is solved now.

 

But in case anyone is interested in solution: I've used New Measure VS New Column, and as it is well put here the New Measure evaluates it when used on the visual (VS New Column which evaluates on each row in the table) 

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argnist
Frequent Visitor

It is solved now.

 

But in case anyone is interested in solution: I've used New Measure VS New Column, and as it is well put here the New Measure evaluates it when used on the visual (VS New Column which evaluates on each row in the table) 

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