{"id":"fpa-trip-budget-remaining-lines","audience":"fpa","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","technique":"verification","level":"beginner","title":"Compare trip costs with the per-trip budget and what remains","free":false,"task":"You're checking the sales team's travel budget. Write a prompt for plain text with lines starting \"Budget per trip:\", \"YTD average:\", \"Remaining budget:\" and \"Per remaining trip:\", each with the math to the cent. Don't mention the director's view on whether the trips are worth it. Under 70 words. No bullets or numbering.","materialLabel":"Travel budget and trip counts (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"TRAVEL BUDGET CHECK - Sales team, through October, FY26\n\nAnnual travel budget: $60,000\nPlanned trips for the year: 24\nTrips taken so far: 15, total cost $41,250\nTrips still planned: 9\n\nMethod: budget per trip = annual budget / planned trips. YTD average = cost to date / trips taken. Remaining budget = annual budget - cost to date. Per remaining trip = remaining budget / trips still planned.\n\nThe sales director wrote: 'Every trip is worth it, so don't worry about the average.' That's an opinion about value, not part of the budget arithmetic.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"maxBullets","max":0}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the four lines","patterns":["budget per trip","ytd average","remaining budget","per remaining trip"]},{"label":"Gives the formulas","patterns":["/ 24","/ 15","/ 9"]},{"label":"Asks for cents","patterns":["cent"]},{"label":"Bans the director's view","patterns":["(do not|don'?t).*(director|value)"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","plain"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using planned trips for the average","why":"The AI divides cost to date by 24.","fix":"Say: \"YTD average = cost to date / trips taken.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Echoing the director","why":"The AI says trips are worth the cost.","fix":"Add: \"Do not mention the director's view or the value of the trips.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Remaining per trip wrong","why":"The AI divides the remaining budget by 24 or 15.","fix":"Add: \"Per remaining trip = remaining budget / 9.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown extras","why":"The AI adds bold labels, headings and a closing note.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold. Output only the lines asked for.\"","checks":["plainText","maxBullets","r1"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and runs past word limits.","fix":"Ask for fewer words than the real cap and keep each line short.","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Four small formulas with different divisors. Give each divisor and ban the opinion.","rubricLabels":["The line starting \"Budget per trip:\" shows $60,000 / 24 = $2,500.00 and the line starting \"YTD average:\" shows $41,250 / 15 = $2,750.00","The line starting \"Remaining budget:\" shows $60,000 - $41,250 = $18,750.00","The line starting \"Per remaining trip:\" shows $18,750 / 9 = $2,083.33, and the output never mentions the director's view or whether trips are worth it"]}