Suppose that the annual rates of growth of real GDP of Econoland over a five-year period were sequentially as follows:

3 percent, 1 percent, −2 percent, 4 percent, and 5 percent. What was the average of these growth rates in Econoland over these five years? What term would economists use to describe what happened in year 3? If the growth rate in year 3 had been a positive 2 percent rather than a negative 2 percent, what would have been the average growth rate? LO6.1