Both Sides Wash Out
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
14521_sea_of_galilee_lantern_walk · CONTRACTS · Choice ALydia recovers $35,000, the benefit Lydia conferred on Daniel minus the $25,000 in damages incurred by Daniel.
Why it's attractive
The answer pays the breaching performer after doing precise arithmetic.
Why it's wrong
The answer pays the breaching performer after doing precise arithmetic.
14521_sea_of_galilee_lantern_walk · CONTRACTS · Choice CNeither party recovers anything, because Lydia committed a material, unexcused breach and Daniel received a $60,000 benefit from Lydia for which Lydia has not been paid.
Why it's attractive
The answer treats opposing facts as canceling each other without applying a remedy rule.
Why it's wrong
The answer treats opposing facts as canceling each other without applying a remedy rule.
14521_sea_of_galilee_lantern_walk · CONTRACTS · Choice DLydia recovers $60,000, the benefit conferred on Daniel for which Lydia has not been paid.
Why it's attractive
The answer stops at Lydia's unpaid reasonable-value number and misses the contractor's counterclaim.
Why it's wrong
The answer stops at Lydia's unpaid reasonable-value number and misses the contractor's counterclaim.
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