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Question
Harmonic mean is the reciprocal of _________
Options
Median of the values.
Geometric mean of the values.
Arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of the values.
Quartiles of the values.
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Solution
Harmonic mean is the reciprocal of Arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of the values.
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