On the First Day of the Current Fiscal Year, $1,500,000

question 168

Essay

On the first day of the current fiscal year, $1,500,000 of 10-year, 8% bonds, with interest payable semiannually, were sold for $1,225,000. Present entries to record the following transactions for the current fiscal year:

---

Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a data set, which divides the set into two equal halves, with an equal number of data points above and below it.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set. A mode can be used as a measure of central tendency, especially for categorical data.

Histogram

A type of graph that represents the distribution of numerical data by showing the number of data points that fall into various ranges or bins.

Skewed Distribution

A type of distribution in which data points are not symmetrically distributed around the mean, typically tilting to the left (negatively skewed) or to the right (positively skewed).