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Each of a sample of 184 residents selected from a small town is asked how much...

Each of a sample of 184 residents selected from a small town is asked how much money he or she spent last week on state lottery tickets. 100 of the residents responded with $0. The mean expenditure for the remaining residents was $20. The largest expenditure was $228. What is the mode of the data? What is the median of the data? What is the mean of the 184 data points?

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