Brenda Is a Purchasing Agent for Commodities Exchange Corporation

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Essay

Brenda is a purchasing agent for Commodities Exchange Corporation.Dennis,a Commodities corporate officer,gives Brenda written authority to buy for the firm as many computers and peripheral devices as necessary.The next day,Dennis calls Brenda and tells her to buy only fifty note?book computers and nothing else.Brenda shows the written authority to E-Products,Inc.,and enters into a contract with E-Products to buy sixty note?book computers and a selection of printers,scanners,and extra storage media.E-Products ships the order to Commodities.Is Commodities li?able to E-Products under the contract? Is Brenda liable? In each case,if so,why? If not,why not?

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Definitions:

Classification

The systematic process of organizing or categorizing items, ideas, or information based on shared characteristics or principles.

Piaget's Conservation Task

A type of task designed by Jean Piaget to assess a child's ability to recognize that certain properties of objects remain the same even when their appearances change.

Decentration

The cognitive ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation instead of focusing on a single viewpoint, a concept often discussed in developmental psychology.

Conservation of Number

A concept in cognitive development that reflects a child's ability to understand that the quantity of a set of items remains the same regardless of how they are arranged.