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This complete answers manual entitled Answers to Questions and Case Problems and Alternate Problem Sets with Answers is
available to all adopters. Each answer is presented in a standard format:
• Page Reference—The page number or numbers at which the point of law is discussed in the particular chapter.
• Answers to question or problem.
In addition, for your convenience you will find the following:
• Answers to Critical Analysis Questions found at the end of In-Chapter Features
• Answers to Critical Analysis Questions found at the end of In-Chapter Cases
• “What If the Facts Were Different?” Questions at the ends of selected Cases in nearly every chapter.
This manual is also available as part of the Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM (IRCD).
The Remainder of the Business Law
Teaching/Learning System
Supplements for Instructors
PRINTED MATERIALS
Instructor’s Manual
This Instructor’s Manual has the following format:
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• Answers to all of the critical analysis questions following the features and cases.
• Additional background on significant persons, statutes, and especially Restatements that are mentioned or referred to
within the text.
• Additional cases on relevant points of law.
• Lecture enhancement suggestions.
• Suggested answers to all video questions.
• Teaching suggestions, including points to be stressed, hypothetical questions to elicit class discussion, and discussion
questions keyed closely to the text and based on information contained within the text.
Comprehensive Test Bank A and Test Bank B
To ensure consistency between the teaching materials and the text, one of the authors, Roger LeRoy Miller, has co-written
two test banks, Test Bank A and Test Bank B, with William Eric Hollowell. Each test bank has approximately 1,040 multiple-
choice questions with answers, over 1,040 true-false questions with answers, and two essay questions with answers.
Additionally, there is one question for every Shifting Legal Priorities and Insight into Ethics feature, and there are two
multiple-choice questions for each Focus on Ethics section. These questions are available in book form or, as discussed
below, as software.
These test banks are also available as part of the Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM (IRCD).
SOFTWARE AND MULTIMEDIA
Software and multimedia supplements represent an important part of Business Law teaching/learning package. We offer
adopters and students a wide variety of software supplements.
Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM (IRCD)
Included on this CD–ROM are the following supplements: Instructor’s Manual; Answers to Questions and Case Problems
and Alternate Problem Sets with Answers; Test Bank A; Test Bank B; Case-Problem Cases; Case Printouts; Lecture Outline
System; PowerPoint slides; ExamView; Instructor’s Manuals for the Drama of the Law video series; Handbook of Landmark
Cases and Statutes in Business Law and the Legal Environment; Handbook of Critical Thinking and Writing in Business Law
and the Legal Environment; and A Guide to Personal Law.
Case Printouts
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Most of the cases in the main body of the text are available in their entirety in an electronic supplement called Case
Printouts to Accompany Business Law, Twelfth Edition. This electronic version is available both on the companion website
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ExamView® Pro
The ExamView® Pro is program that enables instructors to quickly and easily create tests, enter their own questions, and
customize the appearance of the tests they create. The program has the following features:
• Add or edit questions, instructions, and answers.
• Select questions by previewing the question on the screen.
• Let the system select questions randomly.
• Select questions by criteria.
• The ability to import and export graphs
This program is also available as part of the Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM (IRCD).
WESTLAW
WESTLAW, the premiere computerized legal-research system, is renowned for its ability to help law professors, law
students, attorneys, and paralegals do research in the law. Qualified adopters of Business Law are allowed free hours of
WESTLAW. Contact your South-Western/Cengage sales representative for more details.
Lecture Outline System
Supplements for Students
PRINTED MATERIALS
Study Guide
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This valuable learning tool is entitled Study Guide to Accompany Business Law by Hollowell & Miller. This study guide
contains a chapter-by-chapter review of Business Law. The chapter-by-chapter review offers the following for each chapter
of the text:
• Brief chapter introduction.
• Chapter outline.
• True-false questions.
• Fill-in questions.
• Multiple-choice questions.
SOFTWARE AND MULTIMEDIA
CengageNOW: Interactive Assignment System
The CengageNOW: Interactive Assignments is an online, automatically graded assignment program. For each of the fifty-
two chapters in this text, we have devised different categories of multiple-choice questions that stress different aspects of
learning the chapter materials.
2. Brief Hypotheticals—The next group of seven to ten questions emphasizes spotting the issue and rule of law in the
context of a short factual scenario.
4. IRAC Case Analysis—The final set of four questions for each chapter requires students to perform all the basic elements
5. Application and Analysis—The final set of four questions for each chapter is new and is linked to the Reviewing
9. Additional Advantages of CengageNOW—Instructors can utilize the NOW system to upload their course syllabi, create
and customize the assignments, keep track of their students’ progress, communicate with their students about
assignments and due dates, and create reports summarizing the data for an individual student or for the whole class.
Aplia for Business Law: Online Homework and Gradebook System
Aplia is an online homework system dedicated to improving learning by increasing student effort and engagement. Aplia
encourages business law students to read their text, stay engaged with course material, and master critical-thinking and
legal reasoning skills that will serve them well in their future business careers.
Originally created by a professor to enhance his own course, Aplia has been specially tailored to cover the topics in
each chapter of this the text. Immediate, detailed feedback for every question helps students learn and improves their
performance. Aplia’s numerous interactive features help students stay interested in business law, be more prepared for
CourseMate
CourseMate for business law brings business law concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation
tools that support the printed textbook. Built-in engagement tracking tools allow you to assess the study activities of your
students. Additionally, business law CourseMate includes an interactive online textbook, which contains the complete
content of the print textbook enhanced by the many advantages of a digital environment.
WebTutor Advantage and WebTutor Toolbox
This content-rich, Web-based teaching and learning tool helps students succeed by taking the course beyond classroom
boundaries to an anywhere, anytime environment. WebTutor is rich with study and mastery tools, communication tools,
and course content. You can use WebTutor to provide virtual office hours, post your syllabi, set up threaded discussions,
track student progress with the quizzing materials, and more.
Business Law Home Page
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For this edition of Business Law we have included special Video Questions at the ends of selected chapters, a number of
which are new to this edition. Each of these questions directs students to the text’s Web site (at www.cengagebrain.com)
to view a video relevant to a topic covered in the chapter. This instruction is followed by a series of questions based on the
video. The questions are again repeated on the Web site, when the student accesses the video. An access code for the
videos can be packaged with each new copy of this textbook for no additional charge. (Students who purchase used books