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For june, gold corp. estimated sales revenue at $600,000. it pays sales commissions that are 4% of sales. the sales manager's salary is $285,000, estimated shipping expenses total 1% of sales, and miscellaneous selling expenses are $15,000. how much are budgeted selling expenses for the month of july if sales are expected to be $540,000.

Peyton taylor drew a map with scale 1 cm to 10 miles. on his map, the distance between silver city and golden canyon is 3.75 cm. what is the actual distance between silver city and golden canyon?

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?