Legal concepts
directions: place a t for true or an f for false in the answers column to show
whether each of the following statements is true or false.
answers
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1. the terms of a contract must be accepted by the party to whom
it was communicated.
2. an agreement to commit a crime can be considered a contract.
3. a bilateral contract is one that is formed by a mutual exchange of
legally binding promises.
4. an offeror must appear to be serious when making an offer.
5. words spoken in anger are not considered an offer.
6. preliminary negotiations are considered to be offers.
7. a purported offer that lacks essential information is legally
ineffective.
8. an executed contract is a contract that has not been fully performed. 8.
9. a person who is not the intended offeree can accept the offer.
10. advertisements that ask the offeree to perform an act as a way of 10.
accepting cannot be considered offers.

The hawthorne works was a large western electric factory with 45,000 employees. during the 1920s and 1930s, hawthorne works was the site of some well-known industrial studies. in one of the studies, researchers investigated the impact of different working conditions on worker productivity. prior to the start of the study, researchers secretly measured workers' productivity for several weeks. then researchers chose two workers, who then chose their own teams. the teams were separated from the general workforce and completed their work in different experiment rooms where the researchers could observe them more easily. over a 5-year period researchers manipulated the structure of the workday for each team (number and duration of breaks and number of hours per shift). for each of these changes in working conditions, the researchers measured the effect on productivity. for some conditions, such as frequent short breaks, workers rebelled by intentionally decreasing productivity.why did the researchers secretly measure the workers' productivity before creating the two treatment groups? a, to create similar treatment groups so that a cause-and-effect relationship could be establishedb, to draw conclusions about the productivity of all workers in the plant based on the test groupsc, to directly control for confounding variablesd, to provide a baseline for measuring worker productivity

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Which of the following tends to result in a decrease in the selling price of houses in an area? a. an increase in the population of the city or town. b. an increase in the labor costs of construction. c. an increase in the income of new residents in the city or town. d. an increase in mortgage interest rates.