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Chapter 11 - The Agreement: Acceptance
V. ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS AND PROBLEM CASES:
1. No. In this case Citibank had made an offer to Wilson about a revised agreement. The court
noted that acceptance need not be made by a spoken or written word. It can be accepted by
2. Yes. PGS customers are bound by the TOS, because they manifest their assent when creating
an account. The terms are clear available to the user who must indicate clearly his or her
3. No. The court decided that the contract was not formed under subsection (1) of 2-207 because
Belden had expressly conditioned acceptance on AEC’s consent to the additional terms, but
that a contract had been formed under (3) by conduct that recognized the existence of a
4. Yes. UCC section 2-207 applies to this case. The court stated that, “[b]y using the Glassrobots
standard sales agreement as a template and by authorizing a wire transfer of the down
payment, Standard Bent Glass demonstrated its intent to perform under the essential terms of
5. No. The court holds that a contract was not formed because it did not give the plaintiffs
6. No. The ads were offers, but Alexander and her son did not accept them. The plaintiffs’
acceptance must have been received by the defendants by the time prescribed in the offer and
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Chapter 11 - The Agreement: Acceptance
7. No. The issue in the case was whether, under the mailbox rule, mail was an authorized mode
of acceptance despite the fact that the offer was hand-delivered and did not expressly state
8. No. The court applied the mirror image rule to determine that there had been no meeting
of the minds in this case. The court stated that, “in order for a contract to be formed, an
9. No. State Farm’s preaddressed envelope authorized Casto to respond to its offer by mail and
Casto did respond by mail. To be effective upon mailing under the mailbox rule, however, the
10. No. The court held that an employer’s silence in response to the alteration of a written
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