Thomas Helvey is suing the Wabash County Rural Electrical Company for breach of contract. The electric company caused 135-volt electricity to enter Helvey’s home, damaging 110-volt appliances. Helvey brought suit claiming his contract with the electric company falls under UCC Article 2 for the sale of a good. Construct an argument for the plaintiff positing that electricity is a good. Why would this position be beneficial to the plaintiff? Next, construct an argument on behalf of the defendant positing that electricity is not a good under UCC Article 2. Which argument seems more persuasive to you?

Following is a list of various costs incurred in producing replacement automobile parts. with respect to the production and sale of these auto parts, classify each cost as either variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs. 1. oil used in manufacturing equipment 2. plastic 3. property taxes, $165,000 per year on factory building and equipment 4. salary of plant manager 5. cost of labor for hourly workers 6. packaging 7. factory cleaning costs, $6,000 per month 8. metal 9. rent on warehouse, $10,000 per month plus $25 per square foot of storage used 10. property insurance premiums, $3,600 per month plus $0.01 for each dollar of property over $1,200,000 11. straight-line depreciation on the production equipment 12. hourly wages of machine operators 13. electricity costs, $0.20 per kilowatt-hour 14. computer chip (purchased from a vendor) 15. pension cost, $1.00 per employee hour on the job

Individual consumers belong to which step of choosing a target market? possible customers competition demographics communication

Melissa is a very generous single woman. before this year, she had given over $11,400,000 in taxable gifts over the years and has completely exhausted her applicable credit amount. in the current year, melissa gave her daughter riley $100,000 and promptly filed her gift tax return. melissa did not make any other gifts this year. how much gift tax must riley pay the irs because of this transaction?