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Some information about auto theft rates (number of auto thefts per 100,000 population) for a sample of 178 cities in two different years is summarized below. Express the statistical information in words. What changes were there in the overall shape of the distribution of this variable? In central tendency?In dispersion?

1990                    2010

Mean                               150.32                125.17

Median                            117.17                123.01

Standard Deviation            12.23                    7.01

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