George Edwards Has Just Bought a Brand New Furnace from Henry's

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Multiple Choice

George Edwards has just bought a brand new furnace from Henry's Furnace Company.Towards the end of the installation of the furnace,a piece of piping falls on the furnace and badly scratches one side of it.Because of the scratch,George does not want to pay for the furnace.In a lawsuit by Henry's Furnace Company for payment,

• A)George will successfully defend the lawsuit because the scratch is a major breach and terminates the contract.
• B)George will lose the lawsuit because the scratch is a minor breach of the contract.
• C)George will successfully defend the action because a brand new furnace is not the same as a scratched furnace.
• D)George will lose the lawsuit using the maxim res ipsa loquitur.
• E)George will successfully defend the lawsuit because the scratch fundamentally changed the contract.

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Definitions:

Ketoses

A type of monosaccharide (simple sugar) that has its carbonyl group (C=O) located at an internal carbon atom, making it a ketone.

Haworth Structure

A method for representing the cyclic structure of monosaccharides with a simple three-dimensional perspective, showing the spatial configuration of each carbon atom and its attached groups.

β-D-Ribofuranose

A sugar molecule that is a component of RNA, featuring a five-membered ring structure.

Stereoisomeric Aldohexoses

Different spatial arrangements of atoms in aldohexose carbohydrates, leading to different physical and chemical properties despite having the same molecular formula.