In Which of the Following Situations Will Specific Performance Be

question 2

Multiple Choice

In which of the following situations will specific performance be granted?

• A) Albert orders 200 tonnes of grain from Ben. Because Ben has not been paying his suppliers as of late they refuse to deliver to him. Ben informs Albert he cannot perform the contract.
• B) Alan fails to show up for work at his computer programming job and his boss, Bernard, requests his attendance in order to finish a big order.
• C) Anglo Industries is the sole producer of aminobutanol in Europe. They have concluded a five year supply contract with Britishcare, which uses the product for the production of vaccines. In the third year of the contract, Anglo decides to manufacture vaccines as well and refuses to supply Britishcare for the remaining two years. The only other supplier of aminobutanol is in Japan and they have no extra capacity to supply Britishcare
• D) Alice owns an exotic pet shop. She orders a rare Melanesian finch for one of her customers from Bob, who owns an animal import business. Because of a new law banning the import of Melanesian Finches, Bob cannot deliver the finch to Alice.

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Definitions:

Service Rate

The rate at which service is provided to customers, often measured in customers per unit of time.

Waiting Time

The amount of time a person or item spends waiting to be processed or receive service.

Service Rate

In queueing theory, the rate at which a service mechanism can process or serve customers within a given time frame.

FCFS

FCFS, or First-Come, First-Served, is a scheduling principle where requests are processed in the order in which they were received, with no regard to their importance or priority.