Twelve Randomly Chosen Students Were Asked How Many Times They $\sqrt [ 12 ] { 42 }$

Multiple Choice

Twelve randomly chosen students were asked how many times they had missed class during a certain semester, with this result: 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 5, 9, 1, 2, 3, 3, 10. The geometric mean is:

A) $\sqrt [ 12 ] { 42 }$
B) 2.604
C) 1.517
D) $\sqrt [ 2 ] { 97200 }$