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Estate Payment Is Optional Gift

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

  • 17674_scripture_card_commission · CONTRACTS · Choice ATimothy cannot recover because Esther's death automatically ended the offer even though he had started the invited work.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer makes death decisive even though the stem placed beginning performance before death.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer makes death decisive even though the stem placed beginning performance before death.

  • 17674_scripture_card_commission · CONTRACTS · Choice BTimothy can recover only if his out-of-pocket supply costs equal exactly $2,700.

    Why it's attractive

    The word exactly creates a numeric requirement the stem never makes relevant.

    Why it's wrong

    The word exactly creates a numeric requirement the stem never makes relevant.

  • 17674_scripture_card_commission · CONTRACTS · Choice DTimothy cannot recover because Esther's statement was only a gift unless the estate chose to honor it.

    Why it's attractive

    The stem says payment was offered for completed work, not as a gift.

    Why it's wrong

    The stem says payment was offered for completed work, not as a gift.

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