Opal is injured and her property is damaged when a truck with defective brakes careens off an adjacent highway and crashes into her home. If Opal brings a successful tort action against the truck’s owner for gross negligence, she may be awarded punitive damages to a. punish the defendant and deter others from similar wrongdoing. b. compensate for her total losses. c. all of the choices. d. put her into the same position she would have been in if the tort had not occurred.

A

Punish the defendant and deter others from similar wrongdoing

Explanation:

Punitive damages, or exemplary damages, are damages assessed in order to punish the defendant for outrageous conduct and/or to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit.

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For Tort to be successful there must be visible damage. In this scenario Opal was clearly injured.

The answer is : $104,000                  

Explanation:

First, we have to lay out the particulars, and explain what each of them mean:

debit balance in account receivable = $32,000. This refers to an amount that cusomers owed the company at the beginning of the period.

revenue recorded = $88,000. This refers to the total sales made by the company.

At the end of the period, we are told that the account receivable contained a balance of $16,000

Therefore it means that after all the payments (both balance from previous period and sales transactions) have been made in cash, the amount which the customers owed the company = $16,000.

Hence the cash collected is calculated as follows

(debit balance at beginning + revenue) - debit balance at the end = cash collected

(32,000 + 88,000) - 16,000 = cash collected

120,000 - 16,000 = cash collected

cash collected = $104,000