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Stolen bat and ball: what did I pay?

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What it tests: Noticing the word 'stole'.

Prompt length: 113 characters, roughly 30 tokens (estimate). · Evaluation results for many models ↗

Prompt
I stole a ball and a bat that together cost $1.10. The bat is $1 more than the ball. What did I pay for the ball?

How to grade it

Nothing: you stole them, so you paid $0. The model may add that the ball costs $0.05, but the question is what you paid.

Answer check: Direct from the premise.

Scorecard tick what the model got right: 0/4

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0/4

Where models usually fail

Only '$0.05'.

Source

Author
GitHub @cpldcpu and contributors
From
Misguided Attention
Exact file or post
https://github.com/cpldcpu/MisguidedAttention/blob/bbae011e1fb5ce239373cb2f381787baec0dd236/README.md
Licence
CC0 1.0
How we use it
Full text (licence allows reuse)

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