Statistical Showdown: The Mysterious Case of Missing Data

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A group of detectives are investigating a series of mysterious disappearances in the town of Numeralia. They've gathered data on the ages of the 30 missing people, which are as follows:

15, 22, 19, 17, 34, 21, 18, 20, 16, 22, 25, 23, 18, 17, 19, 21, 20, 16, 15, 24, 20, 23, 25, 22, 17, 19, 21, 16, 15, 18.

As a budding statistician, your task is to help the detectives by providing the following statistical insights:

  1. Calculate the mean, median, and mode of the ages.
  2. Determine the range of the data.
  3. Comment on what these statistics can tell us about the age group of the missing people.

Provide your calculations and insights to assist the detectives in understanding if there's a pattern in the ages of the missing individuals.

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