Midway Supply Is Planning on Merging with the Riverton Company

question 216

Multiple Choice

Midway Supply is planning on merging with the Riverton Company. Midway will pay Riverton's stockholders the current value of their stock in shares of Midway. Midway currently has 3,500 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $24 a share. Riverton has 1,200 shares outstanding at a price of $9 a share. How many shares of stock will be outstanding in the merged firm?

• A) 3,890 shares
• B) 3,910 shares
• C) 3,950 shares
• D) 4,025 shares
• E) 4,130 shares

Understand the basic statistical terms and symbols related to descriptive statistics.

Identify and calculate measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode).

Understand and calculate measures of dispersion (range, variance, standard deviation).

Distinguish and calculate the position and spread measures (quartiles, midrange, interquartile range).

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