diff --git a/src/main/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/combination/ArithmeticMeanScoreCombinationTechnique.java b/src/main/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/combination/ArithmeticMeanScoreCombinationTechnique.java
index 8ac7c63be..4eb9564e6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/combination/ArithmeticMeanScoreCombinationTechnique.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/combination/ArithmeticMeanScoreCombinationTechnique.java
@@ -41,27 +41,27 @@ private List<Float> getWeights(final Map<String, Object> params) {
 
     /**
      * Arithmetic mean method for combining scores.
-     * cscore = (score1 + score2 +...+ scoreN)/N
+     * score = (weight1*score1 + weight2*score2 +...+ weightN*scoreN)/(weight1 + weight2 + ... + weightN)
      *
      * Zero (0.0) scores are excluded from number of scores N
      */
     @Override
     public float combine(final float[] scores) {
         float combinedScore = 0.0f;
-        int count = 0;
+        float weights = 0;
         for (int indexOfSubQuery = 0; indexOfSubQuery < scores.length; indexOfSubQuery++) {
             float score = scores[indexOfSubQuery];
             if (score >= 0.0) {
                 float weight = getWeightForSubQuery(indexOfSubQuery);
                 score = score * weight;
                 combinedScore += score;
-                count++;
+                weights += weight;
             }
         }
-        if (count == 0) {
+        if (weights == 0.0f) {
             return ZERO_SCORE;
         }
-        return combinedScore / count;
+        return combinedScore / weights;
     }
 
     private void validateParams(final Map<String, Object> params) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/ScoreNormalizationCombinationIT.java b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/ScoreNormalizationCombinationIT.java
index 795ed1e5f..126275a47 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/ScoreNormalizationCombinationIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/processor/ScoreNormalizationCombinationIT.java
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ public void testResultProcessor_whenMultipleShardsAndPartialMatches_thenSuccessf
     }
 
     @SneakyThrows
-    public void testCombinationParams_whenWeightsParamSet_thenSuccessful() {
+    public void testArithmeticWeightedMean_whenWeightsPassed_thenSuccessful() {
         initializeIndexIfNotExist(TEST_MULTI_DOC_INDEX_THREE_SHARDS_NAME);
         // check case when number of weights and sub-queries are same
         createSearchPipeline(
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ public void testCombinationParams_whenWeightsParamSet_thenSuccessful() {
             Map.of("search_pipeline", SEARCH_PIPELINE)
         );
 
-        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights1AsMap, 0.6, 0.5, 0.001);
+        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights1AsMap, 1.0, 1.0, 0.001);
 
         // delete existing pipeline and create a new one with another set of weights
         deleteSearchPipeline(SEARCH_PIPELINE);
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ public void testCombinationParams_whenWeightsParamSet_thenSuccessful() {
             Map.of("search_pipeline", SEARCH_PIPELINE)
         );
 
-        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights2AsMap, 2.0, 0.8, 0.001);
+        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights2AsMap, 1.0, 1.0, 0.001);
 
         // check case when number of weights is less than number of sub-queries
         // delete existing pipeline and create a new one with another set of weights
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ public void testCombinationParams_whenWeightsParamSet_thenSuccessful() {
             Map.of("search_pipeline", SEARCH_PIPELINE)
         );
 
-        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights3AsMap, 1.0, 0.8, 0.001);
+        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights3AsMap, 1.0, 1.0, 0.001);
 
         // check case when number of weights is more than number of sub-queries
         // delete existing pipeline and create a new one with another set of weights
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ public void testCombinationParams_whenWeightsParamSet_thenSuccessful() {
             Map.of("search_pipeline", SEARCH_PIPELINE)
         );
 
-        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights4AsMap, 0.6, 0.5, 0.001);
+        assertWeightedScores(searchResponseWithWeights4AsMap, 1.0, 1.0, 0.001);
     }
 
     private void initializeIndexIfNotExist(String indexName) throws IOException {