Western digital, the irvine, california-based maker of disk drives, recalled about 400,000 of its hard drives because of a faulty internal chip. the chip would not affect the disk drive motor until after six to 12 months of use. this delay in the problem's appearance meant that many consumers would not think to blame the disk drive manufacturer. but, instead of taking the less expensive route of remaining quiet about the problem, western digital chose to offer replacement disk drives for all those that had the faulty chip. this action is an example of

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear