Bruce Runs Back the Odometer on His Car to Make

question 40

Multiple Choice

Bruce runs back the odometer on his car to make it appear as if it had fewer miles.Wally buys the car.When he checks back through past sale reports through his state's title office,Wally discovers that the car had fewer miles when Bruce sold it to him than it had when a previous owner sold it to Bruce.In legal terms,in selling the car knowing that he had tampered with the odometer,Bruce is said to have had ________.

• A)negligence
• B)commercial impracticability
• C)scienter
• D)oversight
• E)inattentiveness

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Definitions:

Capacitance

Refers to the amount of electric charge that a capacitor can hold, measured in Farads, at a given voltage.

Reactive Power

The component of electrical power that does not result in useful work, measured in VARs (volt-amps reactive), and is generated by reactive components like capacitors and inductors.

Inductive Reactance

A measure of the opposition that an inductor presents to alternating current, due to the magnetic field created by the current.

Capacitive Reactance

The resistance that a capacitor offers to alternating current, depending on the frequency of the current and the capacitor value, measured in ohms.