{"id":"col-club-budget-check","audience":"college","category":"data","technique":"constraints","title":"Find which budget lines your club overspent","free":false,"task":"You're treasurer of the Hiking Club, and the student activities office wants a short note in its web form checking your fall spending against the budget. You want exactly 4 numbered lines, one per category, each giving what was spent, the budget, and whether it went over (and by how much), under 60 words in total, in plain text (the form shows symbols as clutter). No intro, use only the expense log, and nothing about next semester.","materialLabel":"Expense log (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"HIKING CLUB - FALL BUDGET vs SPENDING (shared sheet, exported)\n\nFall budget by category:\nTransportation $600 | Gear $400 | Food $250 | Printing $100\n\nDate | Item | Category | Amount\n09/06 | Van rental, Shenandoah trip | Transportation | $285\n09/06 | Gas | Transportation | $62\n09/14 | Trail snacks | Food | $74\n09/20 | Bear canisters x4 | Gear | $236\n09/20 | Bear canisters x4 | Gear | $236   <-- DUPLICATE, entered twice by mistake, we only bought them once (Jess)\n10/04 | Van rental, Blue Ridge trip | Transportation | $285\n10/04 | Gas | Transportation | $58\n10/11 | Flyers | Printing | $45\n10/18 | Pizza, fall social | Food | $168\n10/25 | First aid kit refill | Gear | $52\n11/01 | Headlamps x6 | Gear | $132\n11/02 | Poster for info fair | Printing | $30\n\nComments on the sheet:\n- Jess: fixed the receipt photos, all in the drive folder now\n- Tom: heard SGA might raise our transportation budget to $700 next semester??\n- Jess: food was close but I think we're ok\n- Tom: can we buy a new tent next month","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Saying \"summarize our spending\"","why":"The AI walks through every trip and every comment, and the over-budget answer gets lost in the middle.","fix":"Ask for the shape: \"Exactly 4 numbered lines, one per category: spent, budget, over or not.\"","checks":["numberedItems","r2"]},{"title":"Not mentioning the duplicate","why":"The AI adds up every row it sees unless you tell it to check for flags like a duplicate entry.","fix":"Add: \"Skip any row marked as a duplicate.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not checking the math","why":"Doing sums in its head, the AI miscounts or mixes the budget into the total.","fix":"Say: \"Show each category's addition in its line, like 285+62=347, then compare it to the budget.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands 10-20% over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"each line under 14 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's pasted","why":"AI adds bold totals and headings that show up as asterisks in a web form.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text for a web form, no bold.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets one line per category","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,20}(lines|categor)","one (line )?per category","numbered"]},{"label":"Handles the duplicate row","patterns":["duplicate","entered twice","flagged"]},{"label":"Asks it to show the math","patterns":["show.{0,20}(math|sum|addition|work)","add (up|each)","\\+"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting"]}],"hint":"Data questions need a precise question. Tell the AI what to compare, what to skip, how to lay out each category, and how small the answer must be.","rubricLabels":["Marks exactly two categories as over budget with the right overage: Transportation (spent $690, $90 over) and Gear (spent $420, $20 over). Food ($242) and Printing ($75) are shown as within budget","Counts the bear canisters only once (the row Jess flagged as a duplicate), so Gear is not reported as $656 spent or $256 over","Has nothing besides the numbered category lines (no intro or closing note; showing the addition inside a line is fine) and says nothing about next semester's possible budget change or the tent"]}