how to calculate average rating

Sorry if I am not clear:

How would I calculate the average rating based on the MinRate and MaxRate

for example: minRate = 0 or 1 and MaxRate = 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 0

How would I calculate the rating?

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I am implementing a 5 star rating system and my table structure has two columns: 1) MinRate 2) MaxRate

so my question is: how do calculate the average rating?

here is how I have in my 5 star rating implementation.

int[] {7, 0, 0, 8, 5}; 

This means that:

• 7 users rated the articl开发者_StackOverflow中文版e with a 1
• 0 users rated the article with a 2
• 0 users rated the article with a 3
• 8 users rated the article with a 4
• 5 users rated the article with a 5

int[] x =  {7, 0, 0, 8, 5}; 
/* 
    7 x 1 star
    0 x 2 stars
    0 x 3 stars
    8 x 4 stars
    5 x 5 stars
*/

float totalVoters = 0;
float totalPoints = 0;

for(i = 1; i <= x.length; i++)
{
    //add 7, 0, 0, 8, 5
    totalVoters += x[i];

    /* add
        7 x 1 star = 7,
        0 x 2 stars = 0,
        0 x 3 stars = 0,
        8 x 4 stars = 32,
        5 x 5 stars = 25
    */
    totalPoints += x[i] * i;
}

response.write(totalPoints/totalVoters); //get the average

I don't really know ASP.NET, but the average is just the total divided by the number of items:

(int[0] + int[1] * 2 + int[2] * 3 + int[3] * 4 + int[4] * 5) / 5

So in a loop (won't work, as int is reserved, but you get the idea):

float average = 0;

for (int i = minrate; i < maxrate; i++) {
  average += int[i] * i;
}

average /= maxrate;

Here is some pseudo code:

double avg = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++) // arr.Length should be the same as MaxRate
{
    avg += arr[i] * (i + MinRate);
}
avg /= arr.length;

((7*1)+(8*4)+(5*5))/(7+8+5) = 3.2

This is what i did

   private static double GetRating()
        {
            int star5 = 12801;
            int star4 = 4982;
            int star3 = 1251;
            int star2 = 429;
            int star1 = 1265;

            double rating = (double)(5 * star5 + 4 * star4 + 3 * star3 + 2 * star2 + 1 * star1) / (star1 + star2 + star3 + star4 + star5);

            rating = Math.Round(rating, 1);

            return rating;
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            double rating = GetRating();
            Console.WriteLine("Your product rating: " + rating);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

Here's my solution to use in the 5 of 5 votes:

// 36 = excellent (5), 49 = good (4), 17 = average (3), 5 = bad (2), 9 = terrible (1)
var values = new[] {36, 49, 17, 5, 9};

var result = GetRating(values).ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
MessageBox.Show(result); // 3.84

public static double GetRating(int[] ratings)
{
    double ratingsSum = 0;
    double ratingsTotal = 0;
    for (var i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
    {
        ratingsSum += ratings[i - 1];
        ratingsTotal += i * ratings[5 - i];
    }
    var average = ratingsTotal / ratingsSum;
    return Math.Round(average, 2);
}