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Does AVG(col) equal SUM(col)/COUNT(*)?

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Your manager runs two queries against the same orders table:

SELECT AVG(discount) FROM orders;
SELECT SUM(discount) / COUNT(*) FROM orders;

They return different numbers. Why?

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