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Need help, ASAP

hi

i wonder how i can express correctly the following thing:
i have a chart that displays the arithmetic mean (total value/total number) of some data, every 5 minutes.
Is this correct? I'm not good with preposition usage
"Currently it shows an average of the values of payments to the number of payments over the selected period of time"

thank you
diana
  

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It would probably be clearer if worded as follows: '[The above] graph plots the average of the payment values against the number of payments made over the selected time period and is updated every five minutes' I think the key to it making sense is the use of the word 'against' - you plot one set of data against another. ' Hope this helps. Chuck

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  • It would probably be clearer if worded as follows: '[The above] graph plots the average of the payment values against the number of payments made over the selected time period and is updated every five minutes' I think the key to it making sense is the use of the word 'against' - you plot one set of data against another.
  • ' Hope this helps.
  • Chuck
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It would probably be clearer if worded as follows:

'[The above] graph plots the average of the payment values against the number of payments made over the selected time period and is updated every five minutes'

I think the key to it making sense is the use of the word 'against' - you plot one set of data against another.

I would probably avoid using the word 'current
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