Anchor Dependent
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
14409_sunken_ark_hall · CONTRACTS · Choice ABarnabas is excused, because the contract is voidable on account of the parties’ mutual mistake concerning an essential underlying fact.
Why it's attractive
Both parties' ignorance is attractive, but the answer omits who carried the risk.
Why it's wrong
Both parties' ignorance is attractive, but the answer omits who carried the risk.
14409_sunken_ark_hall · CONTRACTS · Choice CLydia prevails, because Barnabas did not know that subsurface limestone was present in the area.
Why it's attractive
No actual knowledge is not the reason Lydia wins.
Why it's wrong
No actual knowledge is not the reason Lydia wins.
14409_sunken_ark_hall · CONTRACTS · Choice DBarnabas is excused under the modern doctrine of supervening impossibility, which includes severe impracticability.
Why it's attractive
The added cost is real, but the answer over-extends the excuse.
Why it's wrong
The added cost is real, but the answer over-extends the excuse.
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