WE CANNOT SUMMARIZE THIS FIELD WITH AVERAGE

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Please help me, I managed to show text values on my pivot table but when i want to show the average an error always shows saying " We can't summarize this field with average because it is not supported calculation for text data types". thank you!
 

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