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New York State Penitentiary is worried about increasing violent crimes in prisons. It examined the number of prisons in the system based on the following data presented for number of violent crimes last month.

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What is the mean, median, and standard deviation. Should the mean or the median be used in analysis by the penitentiary? Why (Consider an outlier in this sample)?

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