calculating percentage in ms access

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Hey good people. i have two subqueries.they are as follows

HTML

1- count of total houses = 5
2- count of houses with TV = 3

Now i want to calculate the percentage of houses with TVs, here is expression am using

SQL

% Houses with TV: 100/[totalhousesswithTV].[countofhouseid]*[totalhouses].[countofhouseid]

am getting a wrong result, am getting 166.66666667, instead of 60. whats wrong with the expression

Posted 11-Aug-12 10:29am

Updated 11-Aug-12 10:31am

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André Kraak · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-11T11:04:00

This is caused by the Order of operations[^] try using instead:

% Houses with TV: 100/([totalhousesswithTV].[countofhouseid]*[totalhouses].[countofhouseid])

or

% Houses with TV: [totalhousesswithTV].[countofhouseid]/[totalhouses].[countofhouseid]*100

Posted 11-Aug-12 11:04am

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mayeso 13-Aug-12 5:31am

thanks both options works perfect.thanks