SOLUTION: What is the geometric mean of 2 and 25?

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Question 1066442: What is the geometric mean of 2 and 25?
Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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this reference tells you how to do it.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/geometric-mean.html

basically, you take the nth root of the product of n numbers.

in your problem, n = 2.

the geometric mean is therefore the square root of (2 * 25).

that makes the geometric mean the square root of (50).