When John asked Melanie to babysit Saturday night, he told her that he would pay $7 per hour. She accepted and did the work but has not yet received the money. What type of contract was this?

a. implied contract
b. unilateral contract
c. bilateral contract
d. sales contract
I think the answer is "c" or is it "A"

Express contract
: This form of contract is established when both the parties explicitly (orally or written) agree on the contract terms. For example, a worker promises to paint a customer’s car in return for the customer’s promise of payment of set fees.

Implied contract:
In this form of contract, the agreement on the terms of contract is implied through the conduct of the participants in the contract. For example, Jake fills gas in his truck from Zoe’s gas station. Here, Jake abides by the implied contract by paying for the gas. Zoe enters the contract by offering Jake gas to fill in his truck. If Jake finds later that the fuel is of inferior quality as compared to the one he paid for and can prove this, he can file a complaint and hope to win damages. This is true even if nothing was signed on paper between the two parties.

Unilateral contract: This form of contract deems acceptance of a contract from the other party when that party performs the requested action. Here, both the partaking parties are clear about this term of contract. For example, Clara suggests to Stacy that Clara would pay Stacy $50 if Stacy helps her unload her luggage from a truck. Stacy begins unloading Clara’s luggage from the truck. Here, Stacy showed her acceptance of the offer through her fulfillment of the requested action of unloading the truck.

Bilateral contract:
According to this form of contract, two or more parties enter into a contract by promising to fulfill the requested action. For example, Soket Company offers to buy 100 boxes of cotton from Yaro Enterprises for $500. Yaro Enterprises Company, in turn, promises to deliver 100 boxes of cotton to Soket Company

C is the answer.

Based on the information provided, the type of contract in this scenario would be a bilateral contract.

In this case, John asked Melanie to babysit Saturday night and offered to pay her $7 per hour. Melanie accepted this offer, which creates an agreement between the two parties. Both John and Melanie have made promises to fulfill their respective parts of the contract - John promising to pay Melanie and Melanie promising to babysit.

Therefore, the answer is c. bilateral contract.

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