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prealgebra senior

Problem

The harmonic mean of two numbers can be calculated as twice their product divided by their sum. The harmonic mean of and is closest to which integer?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
Since the harmonic mean is times their product divided by their sum, we get the equation which is then which is finally closest to . You can also think of as which it should be obvious that our number is most closest to 2 (), our answer here is
Final answer
A