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- A company has ten customers and three products. Each customer has bought
- either none or exactly one of each product.
- The following table shows each of the ten customers and what products
- they have bought.
- * = customer has purchased product
- . = customer has not purchased product
- customer product
- # A B C
- 1 . . Y 1 -> C
- 2 . Y . 2 -> B
- 3 Y . Y 3 -> A C
- 4 Y Y . 4 -> A B
- 5 Y . Y 5 -> A C
- 6 Y . . 6 -> A
- 7 Y Y . 7 -> A B
- 8 . . Y 8 -> C
- 9 . Y Y 9 -> B C
- 10 . Y Y 10 -> B C
- There are ten customers and 16 total products bought. That means the average customer
- has purchased 1.6 products.
- Customers 3 through 7 inclusive have each bought product A. There are five such
- customers and in total they have bought nine products. That means the average customer
- who has bought product A has bought 9/5 products or 1.8 products.
- Customers 2, 4, 7, 9, and 10 have bought product B. There are five such customers
- and in total they have bought nine products. That means that the average customer
- who has bought product B has bought 1.8 products.
- Customers 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, and 10 have bought product C. There are six such customers
- and in total they have bought ten products. That means that the average customer
- who has bought product C has bought 1.66 products.
- In other words, in every group of customers, the average customer in that group
- has bought more than the average customers. Surely such a company can only exist
- in Lake Wobegon where every product's customers are above average.
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