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Just an ordinary day in Lake Wobegon

Apr 5th, 2017
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  1.  
  2. A company has ten customers and three products. Each customer has bought
  3. either none or exactly one of each product.
  4.  
  5. The following table shows each of the ten customers and what products
  6. they have bought.
  7.  
  8. * = customer has purchased product
  9. . = customer has not purchased product
  10.  
  11. customer product
  12. # A B C
  13. 1 . . Y 1 -> C
  14. 2 . Y . 2 -> B
  15. 3 Y . Y 3 -> A C
  16. 4 Y Y . 4 -> A B
  17. 5 Y . Y 5 -> A C
  18. 6 Y . . 6 -> A
  19. 7 Y Y . 7 -> A B
  20. 8 . . Y 8 -> C
  21. 9 . Y Y 9 -> B C
  22. 10 . Y Y 10 -> B C
  23.  
  24. There are ten customers and 16 total products bought. That means the average customer
  25. has purchased 1.6 products.
  26.  
  27. Customers 3 through 7 inclusive have each bought product A. There are five such
  28. customers and in total they have bought nine products. That means the average customer
  29. who has bought product A has bought 9/5 products or 1.8 products.
  30.  
  31. Customers 2, 4, 7, 9, and 10 have bought product B. There are five such customers
  32. and in total they have bought nine products. That means that the average customer
  33. who has bought product B has bought 1.8 products.
  34.  
  35. Customers 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, and 10 have bought product C. There are six such customers
  36. and in total they have bought ten products. That means that the average customer
  37. who has bought product C has bought 1.66 products.
  38.  
  39. In other words, in every group of customers, the average customer in that group
  40. has bought more than the average customers. Surely such a company can only exist
  41. in Lake Wobegon where every product's customers are above average.
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