QUESTION $52$

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To decide on a contractor, Lola met with three local builders, Chester, Davin, Emmanuel, and Fast Freddie, each in their respective offices. She made the same offer to all four $$300,000$ to build her house in the time she's gone on her trip. Each asked for time to put together a proposal and told her they'd get back with her. The site where Lola intended to build was in a prominent location downtown only a few blocks away from each contractor's office, and each contractor drove past it every day on the way to and from work.

The first email Lola received was from Davin, who was anxious to build Lola's house, but couldn't do so for less than $$350,000.$ At about the same time, Chester emailed Lola with his acceptance of her terms and right away began digging the foundation and preparing for framing. Emmanuel drafted up a written acceptance of Lola's offer, on all her offered terms, and decided instead of emailing her, he'd hand deliver it$.$ In doing so$,$ Emmanuel drove past the building site where Chester was hard at work. Fast Freddie put together an acceptance, on all Lola's terms, but then it got buried under a bunch of other papers on his desk and it slipped his mind.

After hearing back from Chester, Davin, and Emmanuel, Lola thought it might be wise to let everybody know she'd received Chester's acceptance. She whipped out a quick email and sent it to Davin and Emmanuel, but forgot to include Fast Freddie.

Add to the hypo: A year went by and Fast Freddie couldn't believe his bad luck. On the very morning he had put together Lola's acceptance, he stepped outside for a cigarette just as Jim, from the textbook hypo on p$.83,$ was throwing his piano out the window of his third floor apartment, right above Fast Freddie's office. He'd always been told those thing'll kill you. For the past year, Freddie had been in a full body cast in his grandma's basement watching reruns of "Let's Make a Deal." He figured his business was done, with him being gone so long. As he was driving toward his office, he noticed the lot where Lola was going to build her house sat empty. Then as he was packing up his office to shutter his business, there, under a moldy pile of pizza boxes, he found it: the acceptance he'd written to Lola's offer. "Wow!" he thought. $"$My luck has really changed!"

Has Fast Freddie's luck really changed?

A$.$ Yes, because even though a year had passed, Lola still needed a house and Fast Freddie was still willing to build it

B$.$ No$,$ because Lola's offer had likely lapsed

C$.$ Yes, because Fast Freddie had never received Lola's email giving notice the contract had gone to Chester

D$.$ No$,$ because Lola required acceptance within a fixed timeframe, which had passed