What Extremely Harsh Tactic Did the British Use to End

question 26

Multiple Choice

What extremely harsh tactic did the British use to end their war with the Boers in South Africa?

• A) All Boer prisoners were brutally tortured, with most dying before they could be executed.
• B) Captured Boer soldiers were transported to Australia.
• C) The British forced Boer families into makeshift compounds known as concentration camps.
• D) The British planted land mines in fields cultivated by the Boers.
• E) The British poisoned wells used by the Boers.

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Definitions:

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all manufacturing costs (both fixed and variable) in the cost of a product.

Operating Income

Earnings from a company's core business operations, excluding expenses and revenues from investments and other non-operational activities.

Variable Costing

An accounting method that only allocates variable production costs to products, excluding fixed costs.

Absorption Costing

A costing method that includes all manufacturing costs - direct materials, direct labor, and both variable and fixed overhead - in the cost of a product.