Some Information About Auto Theft Rates (Number of Auto Thefts

Essay

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 this statistical information in words.What changes were there in the overall shape of the distribution of this variable? In central tendency? In dispersion?
$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|}\hline & 1985 & 2005 \\\hline \text { Mean }= & 150.32 & 125.17 \\\hline \text { Median }= & 117.17 & 123.01 \\\hline \text { Standard } & & \\\hline \text { Deviation }= & 12.23 & 7.01 \\\hline & &\end{array}$