well, clearly the LCD from the denominators of 5 and 10 is just 10, thus

Answer:
The mean or average is 9.5 for this set of data. The median is 10.5 and the range is 5.
The question is asking which formula will give the results
1, 9, 36, 100, 225, ...
for k values of
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
You can try them out to see.
A) for k=2, gives 2*3/2 = 3 . . . not 9
B) for k=1, gives 2^3/3 = 8/3 . . . not 1
C) for k=2, gives (2^2*3^2)/4 = 9 . . . . looks promising
D) for k=1, gives 1*2^3/5 = 8/5 . . . not 1
Selection C is the only viable choice. (And the correct one.)