Explain the design of the type of gas container shown in the illustrations and graphs in Lesson 3.

Recall the table discussed before that gives the price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States (in dollars) for the years $2003$ through $2011$. Another table discussed gives the price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States (in dollars) for the years $1990$ through $2002$.

By using $1990$ as the base year, construct a simple index for the prices of a gallon of regular gasoline in both tables.

As part of a school contest, Sarah and Luis are playing a math game. Sarah must pick a number between 1 and 50 and give Luis clues so he can write an equation to find her number . Sarah says, "If I subtract 5 from my numbe r, multiply that quantity by 4, and then add 7 to the result, I get 35:'

The Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the largest and best-managed opera companies in the United States. Managing opera productions requires advance planning, including the development of scenery, costumes, and stage properties and the sale of tickets. To measure how well the company is operating in any given year, management must apply accrual accounting to these and other transactions. At year-end, April 30, 2011, Lyric Opera’s balance sheet showed deferred production costs and other assets of $1,978,322 and deferred ticket and other revenue of$12,710,639. What accounting policies and adjusting entries are applicable to these accounts? Why are they important to Lyric Opera’s management?

Modern vacuum pumps make it easy to attain pressures of the order of $10^{-13}$ atm in the laboratory. Consider a volume of air and treat the air as an ideal gas. (a) At a pressure of $9.00 \times 10^{-14}$ atm and an ordinary temperature of 300.0 K, how many molecules are present in a volume of $1.00 \mathrm{cm}^{3}$? (b) How many molecules would be present at the same temperature but at 1.00 atm instead?

Use the following information to answer.

An upscale department offers its customers free gift wrapping on any day that they spend at least $\$ 100$. The store offers 5 box sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL), 6 wrapping themes (birthday, wedding, baby girl, baby boy, anniversary, and all-occasion), and 3 styles of bow (classic, modern, and jazzy).

What is the probability that any wrapped package will be in a large box?

In each sentence below, a modifier is underlined. If the form of the modifier is incorrect, write the correct form above it. If it is already correct, write $C$ above it. Example 1. When he got up, Benjamin felt $\underline{\text{badder}}$ (worse) than when he had gone to bed.

10. Modern science fiction moves have gooder special effects than early movies did.

Insert a colon where necessary. If the sentence is correct, write C in the blank.
______The most popular sports in the United States are football, basketball, and baseball.

How did the creation of the Fed improve our banking system?

Understanding the evolution of our banking system is important because it helps us understand the features of modern banking. Today we have a managed money supply that is accepted by everyone simply because people have faith in it. Which of the following is true about our banking system today?

c) Our banking system is shifting away from electronic bookkeeping.

Design a controlled experiment to demonstrate that birds do not spontaneously generate on bird feeders.

Listed below are nine technical accounting terms:

$$\begin{array}{lll}\text { Variable costs } & \text { Relevant range } & \text { Contribution margin } \\ \text { Break-even point } & \text { Fixed costs } & \text { Semivariable costs } \\ \text { Economies of scale } & \text { Sales mix } & \text { Unit contribution margin }\end{array}$$

Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. For each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer "None" if the statement does not correctly describe any of the terms.

g. Costs that respond to changes in sales volume by less than a proportionate amount.

Indicate whether each of the following statements concerning diabetes and the chemical monitoring of this condition is true or false. a. Diabetes results from having too much insulin in the blood. b. The inability of the body to properly use insulin once it is produced is a cause of diabetes. c. High levels of glucose in urine is a sign of diabetes. d. Modern glucose-monitoring systems directly measure the amount of glucose in the blood.

The mailroom employees send all remittances and remittance advices to the cashier. The cashier deposits the cash in the bank and forwards the remittance advices and duplicate deposit slips to the Accounting Department.

a. Indicate the weak link in internal control in the handling of cash receipts.

b. How can the weakness be corrected?

Write the following sets:

(a) The set of letters used in the sentence “List the elements in a set only once.”

(b) The set of letters that are needed to spell these words: team, meat, mate, and tame

(c) The set of states in the United States that contain the letter Q