What Is the Effect of the Instruments Being Written by Hand

question 57

Multiple Choice

What is the effect of the instruments being written by hand?

• A) Handwriting does not prevent the instruments from being considered negotiable only because neither Paula nor John would be considered merchants in the transactions at issue.
• B) Handwriting does not prevent the instruments from being considered negotiable only because John would not be considered a merchant in the transaction at issue, and Paula's status as a merchant is irrelevant.
• C) Handwriting does not prevent the instrument from being considered negotiable only because Paula would not be considered a merchant in the transaction at issue, and John's status as a merchant is irrelevant.
• D) Handwriting does not prevent the IOU instrument from being negotiable, but it does prevent the other instrument from being negotiable.
• E) The issue of the instruments being handwritten does not prevent either from being considered negotiable.

---

Definitions:

Normally Distributed

A descriptor for a type of statistical distribution that is symmetric around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Average Starting Salary

The median initial compensation received by employees in their first position post-graduation or certification.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values; a high standard deviation means a lot of variation.

Exponential Distribution

A continuous probability distribution used to model the time between events in a Poisson point process.