The idea of manifest destiny included all of the following beliefs except:

a. commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.
b. the use of land for settled agriculture was preferable to its use for nomadic hunting.
c. westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial.
d. god had selected america as a chosen land and people.
e. the ultimate extent of the american domain was to be from the tropics to the arctic.

In three to four sentences, explain the effect of a price ceiling on the quantity of a good and who this intervention intends to assist

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

The dollar value generated over decades of customer loyalty to your company is known as brand equity. viability. sustainability. luck.