TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you need to write an incorrect answer to the given question. Along with the question, you are also given the correct answer(s) and the associated paragraph. An incorrect answer should be closely related to the content of the paragraph and/or the question but will not truthfully answer the question. Your incorrect answers should be similar to the given correct answer such that it will pose a challenge for students to distinguish the two. A good incorrect answer should prevent those who skip the paragraph from answering the question. The incorrect answer should not be trivial, in the sense that they should not be easily eliminated without reading the paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegascorporate cash.
Sent 2: Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities.
Sent 3: That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
Sent 4: A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos.
Sent 5: True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse.
Sent 6: Several weeks later he was askedthen orderedto vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.
Sent 7: Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, $300-million Las Vegas buying spree.
Sent 8: When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains.
Sent 9: Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting.
Sent 10: Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant.
Sent 11: That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city.
Sent 12: Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
Sent 13: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Sent 14: What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
Sent 15: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Sent 16: The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget.
Sent 17: In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort.
Sent 18: He bought several Strip propertiesthe Silver Slipper and Castaways among themand demolished them to make way for a new kind of resortMirage which became an instant success.
Question: What did Hughes buy in his three year buying spree?.

SOLUTION: The Silver Slipper and Castaways.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.
Sent 2: Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
Sent 3: The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling.
Sent 4: Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival.
Sent 5: She desperately sought political asylum.
Sent 6: Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
Sent 7: The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, "Quest for Justice," to be aired 9 p.m.
Sent 8: today on New Jersey Network.
Sent 9: Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation.
Sent 10: Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Sent 11: Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.
Sent 12: "With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs," he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm.
Sent 13: "If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?"Sent 14: "It was a compelling case," said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire.
Sent 15: "The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries," he said.
Sent 16: Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming.
Sent 17: He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health.
Sent 18: "But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off," he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.
Question: Why was Benjamin of New Jersy seeking legal help?.

SOLUTION: He was seeking assylum.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Women and minorities appear to be benefiting from greater employment opportunities in the United States, but discrimination remains a significant problem, according to a study to be released today by two professors at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
Sent 2: The study, which extrapolated from federal data on about 200,000 large and midsize employers, concludes that about two million workers were affected by intentional discrimination in 1999.
Sent 3: Roughly a third of the employers studied appeared to have discriminated against women or minorities in at least one job category, the authors said The study was based on information collected from employers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1990 through 1999 on so-called EEO-1 forms.
Sent 4: The husband-and-wife team of Alfred W. and Ruth G. Blumrosen then looked at how many women or minority workers a company employed in different job categories compared with how many were employed at other companies in the same industry in the same geographic area.
Sent 5: They described a company as an intentional discriminator if its employment of women or minorities was at least two standard deviations from the average.
Sent 6: Legally, companies are presumed to discriminate if their employment numbers are far below the norm.
Sent 7: About 22,000 employers were identified as "hard core" discriminators.
Sent 8: These companies employed below-average numbers of women and minorities for 10 years and their hiring of women or minorities was so far below the averages that there was only one chance in a hundred that the discrimination occurred randomly.
Sent 9: The study also found rising employment for women and minorities, suggesting significant progress in the workplace.
Sent 10: The names of the companies are confidential and were not known to the researchers.
Sent 11: The professors expect to make their study available through a Web site, www.eeo1.com.
Sent 12: The Blumrosens, who were instrumental in setting up the E.E.O.C. in 1965, also say the government should make more active use of their data.
Sent 13: The commission said it did not comment on draft reports.
Question: If a third of the employees were projected to be discriminatory, how many were not discriminatory?.

SOLUTION:
20,000.