Carmen is an avid bike rider who has a newborn baby. Carmen decides to tuck the baby in a top-quality bicycle basket strapped to Carmen's front handlebars. While Carmen is riding with her baby one day, the bicycle basket's straps break because of the baby's weight and the baby falls to the ground, injured. Carmen sues the manufacturer of the bike basket that injured her baby. Which of the

following statements is true?

a. The manufacturer can be held strictly liable for harm caused by its defective product.
b. The manufacturer can be held liable for negligence.
c. Both a and b.
d. The manufacturer will not be liable because Carmen misused the bike basket in a way that was not reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.


d

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