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What is the geometric mean of a and b

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Answer:

he x's are called means of the proportion, a and b are called extremes.

Explanation:

, the geometric mean of 2 and 18 is 6, because

2/6

=

6/18

so it depends what a and B are.

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(Definition 4 The geometric mean is the positive square root of the product of two numbers. (Definition 5) Thegeometric mean of two numbers, a and b, is the length of one side of a square whose area is equal to the area of a rectangle with sides of lengths a and b.
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