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Reconcile the bank statement against the ledger for May.
Material
Bank: opening 10,000; deposits 5,200, 1,300; payments 2,450, 600; closing 13,450. Ledger: opening 10,000; receipts 5,200; payments 2,450, 600, 300 (cheque 1182); closing 11,850.
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Build a savings plan from my monthly figures.
Material
Income $4,200 after tax. Rent $1,450, groceries $600, transport $220, subscriptions $95, dining $380, utilities $180. Goal: save $6,000 for an emergency fund within 12 months.
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What careers should I explore?
Material
I enjoy explaining things and organizing events. Built a volunteer schedule for 40 people using spreadsheets. Studied biology. Cannot relocate for 2 years. Can study part time, about 6 hours a week.
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Compare these three colleges for me.
Material
Fit: small classes, engineering, within 300 miles. College A: engineering, cost $32,000 after aid letter. College B: no engineering major listed in brochure, cost $18,000. College C: engineering, cost not supplied; application deadline in brochure: 15 January.
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Assess our access control evidence against the selected control.
Material
Control AC-2: accounts reviewed quarterly; leavers removed within 24 hours. Evidence: Q1 review sign-off dated 3 Apr. No Q2 review found. HR leaver list: 4 leavers in May. Directory export (1 Jun): 2 of the 4 leavers still active.
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What are customers telling us about onboarding?
Material
Interview A (small agency): "Setup took a day, the templates saved us." Interview B (enterprise): "We needed 3 weeks and a consultant." Ticket 4412: "Import failed on CSV with commas." Ticket 4419: same CSV error. Survey comment: "Onboarding was easy." NPS survey: 41 responses out of 2,300 customers, average 38. Interview C (enterprise): "Permissions setup was confusing."
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Review this authorized design for defensive gaps.
Material
System: public web app, admin panel on same domain at /admin, protected by password only. Database backups nightly to the same cloud account, no restore test recorded. Logs kept 7 days. Service account with full admin rights used by CI.
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Did the new onboarding flow improve 30 day retention?
Material
Cohort before (Jan, 400 signups): 30 day retained 132. Cohort after (Mar, 120 signups): retained 48. March signups came mostly from a referral campaign. Analyst note: "Retention up 10 points, success."
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Summarize material findings from this data room extract.
Material
CIM: ARR $4.0M, top customer 18% of revenue. Customer contract: top customer may terminate on change of control. Financials: ARR $3.6M at year end. Tech note: single engineer maintains billing system.
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Create a lesson on simple interest for 14 year olds.
Material
Source: simple interest I = P × r × t. Example: $500 at 4% for 3 years gives $60. Common error noted by teachers: using percent as a whole number (4 instead of 0.04).
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Review this database migration plan.
Material
Plan: migrate orders DB from MySQL 5.7 to Postgres 16 on Saturday 02:00. Steps: stop writes, dump, load, switch app config, resume. Estimated downtime 30 minutes; last test load of 400GB took 3.5 hours. No rollback step listed. Payment webhooks keep arriving during downtime and are not queued. Read replicas will be dropped. Success check: app homepage loads.
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Explain the change in operating margin between Q1 and Q2.
Material
Q1: revenue $1,200,000; cost of sales $720,000; operating expenses $300,000. Q2: revenue $1,320,000; cost of sales $830,000; operating expenses $310,000. Management note: "Margin improved due to pricing." Q2 included a one-off $40,000 freight surcharge in cost of sales.
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Compare these two bathroom quotes.
Material
Quote 1: $9,800, includes moving the toilet and new wiring for a heated floor, 1 year warranty. Quote 2: $7,400, excludes electrical, warranty not stated. I want to start in 3 weeks.
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Compare these two liability policies for our café.
Material
Policy A: limit $1M per occurrence, $2M aggregate, deductible $1,000, excludes liquor liability. Policy B: limit $2M per occurrence, aggregate not stated, deductible $2,500, liquor liability included up to $500k. We serve wine in the evenings.
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Help me learn fractions; here are my answers.
Material
Q1: 1/2 + 1/3 = 2/5 (my answer). Q2: 3/4 of 20 = 15 (my answer). Q3: which is bigger, 2/3 or 3/5? I said 3/5. Goal: pass a placement test in 3 weeks.
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Review this NDA against our playbook.
Material
PLAYBOOK: Term max 3 years. Mutual obligations only. Liability cap required. Governing law: New York.
NDA (Acme and Brightline, v2): 1. Confidential Information means all information disclosed by Acme. 2. Recipient (Brightline) shall protect Confidential Information for 7 years. 3. Brightline shall indemnify Acme for any losses without limit. 4. This Agreement is governed by the laws of Delaware. 5. Section 6 governs return of materials. (No Section 6 is included.) 6a. Term: this Agreement ends after 2 years.
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Build my weekly plan.
Material
Work 9 to 5 weekdays plus 1 hour commute each way. Goals: gym 3 times, study Spanish 4 hours, call parents weekly. Kids' practice Tue and Thu 6 to 7:30. Want 8 hours of sleep.
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Develop a campaign brief for our new expense app launch.
Material
Approved product facts: receipt scanning, card sync with 3 banks, approval rules. Draft claim from sales: "Cuts expense time by 80%" (no study cited). Audience research: 15 finance managers interviewed, 11 cited month-end chasing receipts as top pain. Budget $60k. Past campaigns: LinkedIn CPL $140, webinars CPL $60 with 4 webinars run.
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Question
Why are invoice approvals slow and what should change?
Material
Process: invoices arrive by email, AP clerk enters them (avg 2 days), department manager approves (avg 6 days, 30% need reminders), CFO approves all invoices over $5,000 (avg 4 days, CFO travels 2 weeks per month). 40% of invoices exceed $5,000. Late payment fees last quarter: $18,400. Two AP clerks, one on leave until June.
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Review our remote work policy for conflicts and clarity.
Material
Policy 3.1: staff may work remotely up to 2 days a week. Policy 3.4: remote days must be approved monthly by HR. Handbook 7.2: managers approve remote days. Policy does not say how equipment is provided.
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What do I need to do with these letters?
Material
Letter 1 (tax office, dated 2 Sep): send proof of address within 30 days. Letter 2 (insurer): renewal premium $640, auto renews 1 Oct unless cancelled. Letter 3 (school): consent form, no date.
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Should I accept the job offer in Denver?
Material
Priorities: be near family (Chicago), grow in data science, save for a house. Offer: $118k, Denver, senior analyst. Current: $96k, Chicago, no promotion path stated. Rent in Denver estimate from a friend: $1,900; my Chicago rent: $1,500.
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Plan building a backyard shed over weekends.
Material
Goal: 8x10 shed by end of August. Have plans printed. Need a permit (not applied yet). Progress: bought half the lumber. Available: Saturdays only, about 6 hours.
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Compare these two proposals for reducing city traffic congestion against the council criteria.
Material
Criteria: reduce peak congestion, cost under $20M, equity for low-income residents.
Proposal 1: congestion charge of $8/day in the centre. Projected 15% traffic drop citing London's 2003 scheme. Revenue $12M/year. No discount for low-income drivers.
Proposal 2: expand bus lanes and frequency. Cost $26M. Claims 10% traffic drop; no source given. Bus riders are 60% low-income per 2022 city survey.
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Compare these two cloud backup proposals against our requirements.
Material
REQUIREMENTS: 99.9% uptime SLA, EU data residency, 3-year total cost, restore within 4 hours.
Vendor A: $2,000/month, 99.95% SLA, EU and US regions, restore time not stated. Setup fee $5,000.
Vendor B: $1,700/month rising 10% each year, 99.9% SLA, data stored in US only, 2-hour restore guarantee. Vendor B states 3-year total is $61,200.
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Which product opportunity should we prioritize next quarter?
Material
Interviews (12 customers): 8 asked for bulk export, 5 for SSO, 2 for dark mode. Support tickets last quarter: export 140, SSO 30. Sales: 3 enterprise deals worth $420k blocked on SSO. Engineering estimates: export 3 weeks, SSO 8 weeks, dark mode 1 week. One team of 4 engineers available for 12 weeks.
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Which laptop should I buy for video editing?
Material
Budget $1,800. Laptop A: $1,650, 16GB RAM, 512GB, 2 year warranty. Laptop B: $1,750, 32GB RAM, 1TB, 1 year warranty, review says "fans are loud". Seller claims A is "best for creators".
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Review this commercial lease package.
Material
Lease: 5 years from 1 Jul, rent $8,000/month rising 3% yearly, tenant pays all repairs including roof. Schedule B (service charges) referenced but not attached. Broker summary states rent rises 2%. Survey: roof membrane at end of life.
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Should we move customer support from email to a shared help desk tool this quarter?
Material
Current: 3 agents answer 1,900 emails a month, median first reply 14 hours. Help desk quote: $45 per agent per month, 2 week setup. Agents report 20% of emails are duplicates. CEO note: "We cannot afford new tools until Q3." Q2 tooling budget remaining: $1,500.
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What do the supplied studies say about four day work weeks and productivity?
Material
Source A (2023 UK pilot, 61 firms, self-reported): 92% continued; revenue roughly flat. Source B (2019 single firm press release): productivity up 40%, no method stated. Source C (2024 survey, 1,000 workers): 63% prefer it; productivity not measured.
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Prepare a brief for Thursday's meeting with Northwind.
Material
CRM notes: Northwind, 220 staff, using spreadsheets for scheduling. Contact: ops director, said budget "maybe next year". They asked about API access. Our product has an API. No decision maker identified.
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Critique this study summary.
Material
Hypothesis: app use reduces anxiety. Design: 40 volunteers, no control group, 2 weeks. Result: anxiety score fell from 18 to 15 (p=0.04, one of 12 outcomes tested). Conclusion: "the app treats anxiety".
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Should we enter the German mid-market with our scheduling software?
Material
Market note: estimated 40,000 German mid-market firms, source: 2019 trade association survey. Our US win rate 22%. Two local competitors priced 30% below us; one bundles payroll. We have no German-speaking sales staff. Planned budget: $1.2M first year, expecting $3M revenue in year one. Pilot customer feedback (3 firms): want DATEV integration, which we do not have.
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How exposed are we to a disruption at our single resin supplier?
Material
Supplier X supplies 100% of resin, lead time 6 weeks. Stock on hand: 3 weeks. Weekly use 20 tonnes. Alternate supplier Y quoted 10 weeks to qualify. Port strike notice for X's region next month.
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Plan 4 days in Lisbon.
Material
Dates 10 to 13 May. Budget $1,200 excluding flights. Like food and museums, slow pace. Hotel quote $140/night. Want a day trip to Sintra. Museum closed Mondays per guidebook (10 May is a Monday).
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Draft an email to my landlord about the broken heater.
Material
Heater broke 3 Nov. Reported by phone 4 Nov, no visit yet. Lease clause 9: landlord repairs essential services within 7 days. Tone: firm but polite. Want repair by Friday.