While Jessica, Ashley, and Bryan are snowboarding, they ignore warning signs indicating that they have left the marked trail and are entering dangerous territory where they become lost. While climbing the mountain as part of the rescue effort, a snowplow accidentally cuts a nearby town's main electrical cable. Due to the loss of her electric heat, Ethel, an elderly woman, dies of hypothermia. The boarders' negligence in ignoring the warning signs is:

the causation in fact, but not the proximate cause, of Ethel's death

Explanation: causation in fact dwells on the premise that an action taken is the cause of the reaction or an accident and if not ""but for" that particular action, the reactiom or accident would not have happen while proximate cause is that which is largely connected to an damage or injur which the courts recognize seemly to be injury caused: law recognizes notably 2 causation factors that are; cause-in-fact, which includes the use of but for in it's analysing or test and proximate or legal cause.cause in fact characterized by its straight to the point (straightforwardness) and direct example is as a result of his action of drunk driving he rank into a nearby store and killed the attendant in charge.

the structure of state governments are determined by. "state constitutins'

under the us constitution, all state governments are.'republics'