An appraiser is developing an opinion of market value for a 20-unit apartment building. The appraiser finds three comparable sales with the following information: Sale 1: 18 units, sold for $1,800,000; Sale 2: 22 units, sold for $2,200,000; Sale 3: 24 units, sold for $2,280,000. Compute the sale price per unit for each comparable, then take the unweighted arithmetic average of those three per-unit prices. What is that average?
Correct Answer
D) $98,333 per unit
Why this is correct: the three per-unit prices are averaged. Calculation: $1,800,000 / 18 = $100,000; $2,200,000 / 22 = $100,000; $2,280,000 / 24 = $95,000; ($100,000 + $100,000 + $95,000) / 3 = $98,333. Why the other choices are wrong: $95,000 and $100,000 are individual sales rather than the average of the three; $102,500 is above every one of them, which no average of the three can be.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Compute each comparable price per unit: $1,800,000 ÷ 18 = $100,000; $2,200,000 ÷ 22 = $100,000; and $2,280,000 ÷ 24 = $95,000. Their unweighted average is $295,000 ÷ 3 = approximately $98,333 per unit.
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