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Compute the geometric mean of the following percent increase?
Compute the geometric mean of the following percent increases: 8, 12, 14, 26, and 5. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
look up this site:
look at especially the calculation part
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean
So all I did was 8x12x14x26x5 = 174720 then take that answer and (174720)^(1/5). The answer I got was 11.180688 so I rounded it to
11.2
Hope this helps
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean
