Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti. More than 120 million people, mostly in Africa and Southeast Asia, are affected.
The relevant range of operations is the normal or average scope of business activities. In the other words, the relevant range of operations is the average volume of sales and production that a business experiences outside of extreme economic prosperity and depression.
Expenses from previous years are also irrelevant. To recap, relevant costs are the future costs that will differ among alternatives. You might use the past costs to help you predict those future costs, but the past costs are otherwise irrelevant to the decision. Accountants refer to the past costs as sunk costs.