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3 years ago

Read the following sentences, and identify the error.

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Lesechka [4]3 years ago

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Answer:

a. Paolo recruited job applicants for the company that showed promise.

The error in this sentence is a: AMBIGUITY.

Who showed promise? The company or the job applicants? This sentence is not specific and you really cannot tell whether the job applicants or the company showed promise.

b. We will be visiting our accounts in California, Oregon, and visiting our accounts in Washington.

The error in this sentence is a: LACK OF PARALLELISM.

In order to show parallelism you should include the dates of the visits, since you cannot visit all 3 states in the same day and do your work properly.

You work for a printing company, and you realize that your colleague sent incorrect price quotes to a client. You begin to write an e-mail to the client to apologize for the mistake. You want to remedy the situation without criticizing your colleague.

The sentence is missing, so I looked for a similar question:

"Bill made an error when he was processing your invoice."

The sentence excerpted from the e-mail uses ACTIVE voice. Given the purpose of your message, this voice IS NOT appropriate.

The whole purpose of this message is to solve a problem without criticizing Bill, but by using active voice, you are directly criticizing him.

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Sagoff, "At the Shrine of Our Lady Fatima or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic."

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Answer:

Sagoff's cost-benefit approach establishes that the value of a thing is determined by how much people are willing to pay for it, so the only important values are the ones that the market can assign. This is why that approach is not suitable for explaining our duties with our environment, since we cannot pay for it and the market cannot assign any value to the environment.

Sagoff is a neo-Kantian ethicist because he also believes that individuals were the judges of value (they could assign value to things) not only for them but for their whole communities.

Sagoff's approach differs from Kant's approach since Sagoff believes that the cost-benefit approach doesn't apply to all the goods and services, especially the environment. He believes that the environment has an intrinsic value and therefore is an end to itself, while Kant believed that only humans had intrinsic value and could be an end to themselves.

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3 years ago

AAA Industries’ most recent balance sheet shows (in thousands of dollars) $200 cash, $400 marketable securities, $600 accounts r

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Answer:

E. 1.667

Explanation:

Current ratio is computed as;

= Current assets / Current liabilities

Current asset = Cash $200 + Marketable securities $400 + Accounts receivable $600 + Inventory $800

= $2,000

Current liabilities = Accounts payable $500 + Notes payable $700

= $1,200

Current ratio = $2,000 / $1,200

= 1.667

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3 years ago

What is a merger that combines more than three businesses that make unrelated products called?

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This merger is called a conglomerate. A conglomerate is a company which has major stocks in a smaller business or company. The smaller businesses are called subsidiaries. The smaller businesses are still independent in terms of operations, however, they need to make reports to the conglomerate.

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3 years ago

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Brooke and John formed a partnership. Brooke received a 40% interest in partnership capital and profits in exchange for contribu

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Answer:

$102,000

Explanation:

Since Brooke contributed the land, the gain realized before the land was contributed = $120,000 - $90,000 will be allocated entirely to her. She will also be allocated 40% of the gain after the contribution was made = ($150,000 - $120,000) x 40% = $30,000 x 40% = $12,000.

So the total gain recognized by Brooke will be $90,000 + $12,000 = $102,000.

Partnerships are pass through entities, the partners are taxed, not the partnership itself.

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3 years ago

A company that produces pleasure boats has decided to expand one of its lines. Current facilities are insufficient to handle the

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Answer:

(a) Alternative A = 401 or more

Alternative B = 0 to 33

Alternative C = 34 to 399

(b) Alternative C will yield the lowest total cost

Explanation:

Alternative A:

Fixed costs = FCa = $250,000

Variable costs per boat = VCa = $500

Alternative B:

Variable costs per boat = VCb = $2500

Alternative C:

Fixed costs = FCc = $50,000

Variable costs per boat = VCc = $1000

We have to find crossover point with the alternative which have nearest variable cost

Hence, we find crossover point between pair of Alternative A and C and pair of Alternative B & C

For A & C

Let the crossover point be x

FCa + VCa * x = FCc + VCc * x

250,000 + 500x = 50000 + 1000x

x = 400

Higher number is preferred for Alternative with higher fixed cost.

Hence, for alternative A, the range should be 400 or more

For alternative C, the range should be less than 400

For B & C

Let the crossover point be y

FCb + VCb * y = FCc + VCc * y

0 + 2500x = 50000 + 1000y

y = 33.33

Higher number is preferred for Alternative with higher fixed cost.

Hence, for alternative C, the range should be 34 or more

For alternative B, the range should be less than 33

As seen from above,

Alternative A = 401 or more

Alternative B = 0 to 33

Alternative C = 34 to 399

Indifference points of 33.33 and 400 are not included in the above answer.

For an annual volume of 150 boats, this fall in the range of 34 to 399

Hence, Alternative C will yield the lowest total cost for an expected annual volume of 150 boats

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