The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN; www. aspan. org) is a national organization serving nurses practicing in ambulatory surgery, preanesthesia, and postanesthesia care. The organization consists of the 40 components listed below. State/Region Membership Alabama 95 Arizona 399 Maryland, Delaware, DC 531 Connecticut 239 Florida 631 Georgia 384 Hawaii 73 Illinois 562 Indiana 270 Iowa 117 Kentucky 197 Louisiana 258 Michigan 411 Massachusetts 480 Maine 97 Minnesota, Dakotas 289 Missouri, Kansas 282 Mississippi 90 Nebraska 115 North Carolina 542 Nevada 106 State/Region Membership New Jersey, Bermuda 517 Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington 708 New York 891 Ohio 708 Oklahoma 171 Arkansas 68 California 1,165 New Mexico 79 Pennsylvania 575 Rhode Island 53 Colorado 409 South Carolina 237 Texas 1,026 Tennessee 167 Utah 67 Virginia 414 Vermont, New Hampshire 144 Wisconsin 311 West Virginia 62 DESCRIBING DATA: DISPLAYING AND EXPLORING DATA 113 Use statistical software to answer the following questions. a. Find the mean, median, and standard deviation of the number of members per component. b. Find the coefficient of skewness, using the software. What do you conclude about the shape of the distribution of component size? c. Compute the first and third quartiles using formula (4–1). d. Develop a box plot. Are there any outliers? Which components are outliers? What are the limits for outliers? 29. McGivern Jewelers is located in the Levis Square Mall just south of Toledo, Ohio. Recently it posted an advertisement on a social media site reporting the shape, size, price, and cut grade for 33 of its diamonds currently in stock. The information is reported below.

Herman is covered by a cafeteria plan by his employer. his adjusted gross income (agi) is $100,000. he paid unreimbursed medical premiums in the amount of $10,500 and he itemizes deductions. what amount will herman be able to deduct for his medical insurance premium expenses?

Which of the following is an example of search costs? a.) driving to a faraway place to find available goods b.) buying goods in some special way that is outside the normal channels c.) paying a premium cost for goods d.) selling extra goods for a discount price

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?