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Given three integers i, j, and k, a sequence sum is to be the

A) Sum of the three integers
B) Product of the three integers
C) Arithmetic mean of the three integers
D) Geometric mean of the three integers

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Final answer:

The question is about the kth percentile in statistics, requiring a process of identifying the position i in an ordered data set or the average of two positions if i is not an integer.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks for the definition of a sequence sum given three integers i, j, and k. The term 'sequence sum' is not a standard mathematical expression, and the actual context of the question is about percentile calculations which is a statistical concept. The explanation involves finding a position (i) within an ordered set based on a given percentile (k) and unfolding the meaning of the kth percentile in data analytics.

If i is an integer, then the kth percentile is the data value at the i-th position in the ordered set. If i is not an integer, the procedure is to round i up and down to the nearest integers, then to average the two corresponding data values. An example can illustrate this more clearly, where having calculated the position as a non-integer, the values at the nearest positions below and above are averaged to find the percentile.

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