A Certain Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Examined the Number of Office

Multiple Choice

A certain health maintenance organization (HMO) examined the number of office visits by each of its members in the last year. For this data set, we would anticipate that the geometric mean would be

A) a reasonable measure of center.
B) zero because some HMO members would not have an office visit.
C) too high because the distribution is likely to be skewed to the left.
D) negative because some data values would be below the mean.