Suggesting Clarification in UID0022 and UID0100

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Locate the benchmark entries for UID0022 and UID0100, then read their current question wording and expected-answer instructions. Clarify that UID0022 uses millions of dollars and make UID0100's rounding instructions consistent with its expected answer; done means both prompts remove the reported ambiguities.

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Hi there!

I believe that UID0022 may benefit from a small clarification that the predicted value is expected in millions of dollars.

Currently, the answer to the question is:

[273.28, 54244, 56703]

Which is the projection you get if you run linear regression using the values in millions of dollars (e.g. [46011, 54119, ..., 53949]) reported in the FFO-3 tables. However, if you interpret the question as asking for the value in dollars, then you get an answer which is incorrectly scaled by 1 million

I think any one of the following edits to the question text could resolve the ambiguity:

Predict the total outlays (in millions of dollars) of the US department of agriculture...
... Perform all calculations in nominal millions of dollars....
... Report all values in millions of dollars inside square brackets,


On an even more minor note, UID0100 asks:

What is the average Year-over-Year (YoY) growth rate... expressed as a percent rounded to the nearest hundredths place? Additionally, run an OLS regression... All numbers should be rounded to the nearest thousandth place.

The tiny conflict in rounding instructions would only make a difference for the first value (avg. YoY growth rate) when evaluating at an absolute relative error of 0.0%, but I figured I'd point it out while I was in the weeds of the dataset.

(The expected answer rounds to the hundredths for YoY growth and thousandths for the OLS slope and y-intercept).

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