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Summarizing age data. The following are the ages of 16 veterans of the Iraq war who are serving on a panel discussing post-traumatic stress disorder. Find the mean and standard deviation of these data.

Age	30	29	28	26	25	23
Frequency	6	3	2	2	2	1

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