Green grocery company employed jones as its manager. jones was given authority by green company to purchase supplies and goods for resale and had conducted business for several years with brown distributing company. although her purchases previously had been limited to groceries, jones contacted brown distributing company and had it deliver a color television set to her house, informing brown company the set was to be used in promotional advertising to increase green grocery company's business. the advertising did not develop, and jones disappeared from the area, taking the television set with her. brown company now seeks to recover the purchase price of the set from green company. will brown prevail? explain.

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.