Ed, a Businessperson, Is a Friend of Fran, the Owner

question 69

Essay

Ed, a businessperson, is a friend of Fran, the owner of Good Morning, a coffee pastries kiosk. Every day, Ed spends five minutes at the kiosk, looking at the goods and usually buying one or two cinnamon buns or bagels. One afternoon, Ed looks at the items, and picks up a $1 chocolate brownie. He waves the brownie at Fran without saying a word and walks on. Is there a contract? If so, how would it be classified in terms of formation, performance, and enforceability?

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Definitions:

Raw Scores

The initial, unadjusted scores obtained directly from the number of questions answered correctly on an assessment or test.

Test-retest Reliability

The consistency of a test's results when the same individuals take the same test again after a period of time, measuring its stability over time.

Z score

A numerical metric that represents how a specific value's deviation relates to the average of a dataset, quantified by the number of standard deviations away from that average.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve, also known as a Gaussian distribution, representing the spread of a variable in a way that most values cluster around the mean.