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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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