Wrong Remedy Frame
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 2 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Contracts2
Example wrong choices
14500_hymnal-restoration-price · CONTRACTS · Choice A$11,000, the amount by which Timothy was enriched by Esther's restoration services.
Why it's attractive
This answer leaves the fixed-price contract and measures benefit instead.
Why it's wrong
This answer leaves the fixed-price contract and measures benefit instead.
14500_hymnal-restoration-price · CONTRACTS · Choice B$9,900, the contract price plus $1,500, the bargain that was lost because Esther could not pay cash for the delivery cart on August 15.
Why it's attractive
This answer adds a separate later bargain to the contract price.
Why it's wrong
This answer adds a separate later bargain to the contract price.
14500_hymnal-restoration-price · CONTRACTS · Choice D$12,000, the contract price plus $3,600 for the medical expenses incurred because Timothy refused to pay.
Why it's attractive
This answer treats stress-related medical expense as a contract-price add-on.
Why it's wrong
This answer treats stress-related medical expense as a contract-price add-on.
20345_prayer_room_pavilion_restitution · CONTRACTS · Choice A25 percent of $72,000 ($18,000).
Why it's attractive
The contract pays at 50 percent, not 25 percent, and the call asks for Stephen's recovery after destruction.
Why it's wrong
The contract pays at 50 percent, not 25 percent, and the call asks for Stephen's recovery after destruction.
20345_prayer_room_pavilion_restitution · CONTRACTS · Choice CThe difference between $72,000 and the lower price Lydia paid to have the pavilion built by another carpenter.
Why it's attractive
Lydia's lower replacement price is not a benefit Stephen can claim.
Why it's wrong
Lydia's lower replacement price is not a benefit Stephen can claim.
20345_prayer_room_pavilion_restitution · CONTRACTS · Choice DThe reasonable value of Stephen's work before the pavilion was destroyed by the windstorm and fire.
Why it's attractive
The answer measures Stephen's work, but the taught anchor asks what Lydia retained.
Why it's wrong
The answer measures Stephen's work, but the taught anchor asks what Lydia retained.
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