Acceptance Word Overread
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Contracts1
Example wrong choices
19768_scripture_card_decks · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because Lydia's signed response accepted Barnabas's price quote.
Why it's attractive
The answer treats the signature and the word accept as enough, but it never asks what Lydia promised to buy.
Why it's wrong
The answer treats the signature and the word accept as enough, but it never asks what Lydia promised to buy.
19768_scripture_card_decks · CONTRACTS · Choice BNo, because Barnabas raised the price only after paper and freight costs increased outside its control.
Why it's attractive
The answer uses the supplier's reason for raising the price, but the earlier question is whether a contract fixed the old price.
Why it's wrong
The answer uses the supplier's reason for raising the price, but the earlier question is whether a contract fixed the old price.
19768_scripture_card_decks · CONTRACTS · Choice DYes, because Barnabas's price quote was in writing and signed by the seller.
Why it's attractive
The answer sees a signed seller writing but skips the hold-open assurance and the six-month delay.
Why it's wrong
The answer sees a signed seller writing but skips the hold-open assurance and the six-month delay.
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