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The geometric mean of a set of n numbers is the value obtained by taking the nth root of their product.

Geometric mean is a high school-level concept that would be first encountered in an algebra course.

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Mean: In statistics, a mean is quantity corresponding to one of possibly several different definitions of the "average" of a set of values, such as the arithmetic, geometric, or harmonic mean. In the absence of additional context, the term "mean" most commnly refers to the arithmetic mean (i.e., the average).

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