Jeff was a subcontractor, bidding on a contract for ace corp., the general contractor. when adding up the total of materials and labor, jeff's secretary mistakenly moved the decimal point one place, ending up with a bid of $3500 rather than $35,000. ace corp. accepted jeff's bid, mostly because all the other bids were over $30,000. when jeff learned of the mistake, he tells ace corp. that he cannot do the job for $3500. if ace corp. sues to enforce this contract, what is the most likely result?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)