Business Pressure Duress Confusion
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
14431_prayer_garden_cistern · CONTRACTS · Choice A$240,000, because Lydia's promise to pay the additional $18,000 was exacted under duress.
Why it's attractive
The stem gives cost accuracy and schedule pressure, not coercion by the contractor.
Why it's wrong
The stem gives cost accuracy and schedule pressure, not coercion by the contractor.
14431_prayer_garden_cistern · CONTRACTS · Choice C$240,000, because there was no consideration for Lydia's promise to pay the additional $18,000.
Why it's attractive
It is the right default rule, but the hidden cistern facts are there to trigger the exception.
Why it's wrong
It is the right default rule, but the hidden cistern facts are there to trigger the exception.
14431_prayer_garden_cistern · CONTRACTS · Choice D$258,000, because the reasonable value of Stephen's total performance was that much or more.
Why it's attractive
It reaches the same number but uses reasonable value instead of the valid modified contract price.
Why it's wrong
It reaches the same number but uses reasonable value instead of the valid modified contract price.
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