Microsoft isn't trying to confuse you—Excel's three ranking functions balance flexibility, compatibility, and tie handling.

This post explains how to calculate Weighted Average in Excel with percentages. In a standard arithmetic average where the sum of values is divided by the number of values, each data value is treated ...

I came across this in a class today and it has me wondering. Perhaps this has been asked serveral times, but does MS have (still) an official reason for using two different names for the same function ...