32."Age of Majority The minimum age required under the law for obtaining a driver's license is usually lower than the age for drinking or voting. What is the rationale for this?"

36.". A Question of Ethics Is it fair and ethical for a minor to take advantage of the protection accorded by the law to breach a contract made with a person who believed the minor to have reached the age of majority?

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37. "Minors' Contracts Nguyen, who was 17 years old, purchased a used boat, agreeing to pay for it in monthly installments over a two-year period. During the next six months, she made 6 of the 24 payments she had agreed to make. The day before she celebrated her 18th birthday, she made the 7th payment. One month later, instead of making the regularly scheduled payment, she attempted to disaffirm the contract, page 167claiming that she was a minor when she made the contract. (Nguyen lived in a state where the age of majority is 18.)

a.Did Nguyen's first six payments indicate her ratification?

a._______

b.Is this a contract for necessaries?

b._______

c.Did the seventh payment serve to ratify the contract?

c._______

d.Is it likely that Nguyen will be successful in her attempt to disaffirm the contract?"