According to your textbook, what kind of supporting material is used in the following speech excerpt: imagine yourself driving down the freeway on your way to work. you see lights flashing in your rear-view mirror. you turn to see the police officer pulling you over. were you speeding? no, says the officer, but he needs to search your vehicle as part of a new program to stop drug trafficking. does he have a warrant? he says he doesn’t need one. you protest, but the officer carries out his search anyway. the officer finds nothing, but by the time he is done, you are very late for work.

Steele bicycle manufacturing company currently produces the handlebars used in manufacturing its bicycles, which are high-quality racing bikes with limited sales. steele produces and sells only 10,000 bikes each year. due to the low volume of activity, steele is unable to obtain the economies of scale that larger producers achieve. for example, steele could buy the handlebars for $31 each: they cost $34 each to make. the following is a detailed breakdown of current production costs: after seeing these figures, steele's president remarked that it would be foolish for the company to continue to produce the handlebars at $34 each when it can buy them for $31 each. calculate the total relevant cost. do you agree with the president's conclusion?

You speak to a business owner that is taking in almost $2000 in revenue each month. the owner still says that they are having trouble keeping the doors open. how can that be possible? use the terms of revenue, expenses and profit/loss in your answer

Your uncle borrows $53,000 from the bank at 11 percent interest over the nine-year life of the loan. use appendix d for an approximate answer but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. what equal annual payments must be made to discharge the loan, plus pay the bank its required rate of interest