You are given a background paragraph that describes one or more causal or qualitative relationships such as a relationship in economics or a scientific law and a story that makes use of the concepts or the relationship described in the provided paragraph. You need to come up with a question about the story that requires an understanding of the relationship described in the background paragraph. The generated question should not be answerable without both the background and story. Write a question about the story that requires a relationship in the background paragraph to answer. Check whether your question requires both the background paragraph and the story to answer. If your question can be answered by only one of these, try to rewrite your question so that it requires both. Note that "flipping" a word in the question can give rise to a new question where the answer will be different from the original question. Often, "flipping" a word gives rise to flipping the direction of the relationship, for example, from "increase" to "decrease."

Background Paragraph: Storing large volumes of data When storing XML to either file or database, the volume of data a system produces can often exceed reasonable limits, with a number of detriments: the access times go up as more data is read, CPU load goes up as XML data takes more power to process, and storage costs go up. By storing XML data in Fast Infoset format, data volume may be reduced by as much as 80 percent.
Story: Porfirio had a busy day storing XML. At 9 AM, he stored 203 Gigabytes to the database. At 10 AM, he stored 303 Gigabytes to the database. At 11 AM, he stored 403 Gigabytes to the database. At 12 PM, he got lunch. At 1 PM, he stored 503 Gigabytes to the database. At 2 PM, he stored 603 Gigabytes to the database. At 3 PM, she went to sleep to finish storing XML later that night.
What time did storage costs go up: 1 PM or 12 PM?

Background Paragraph: To determine the concentration of an acid in an aqueous solution, an acid-base titration is commonly performed. A strong base solution with a known concentration, usually NaOH or KOH, is added to neutralize the acid solution according to the color change of the indicator with the amount of base added.[7] The titration curve of an acid titrated by a base has two axes, with the base volume on the x-axis and the solution's pH value on the y-axis. The pH of the solution always goes up as the base is added to the solution.
Story: A chemist was trying to make a new solution to better get rid of stains on the carpet. Solution A stayed the same. Solution B had 1 ounce of base added. Solution C had 2 ounces of base added. Solution D had 3 ounces of base added. Solution E stayed the same. Solution D was proven as the best solution to get rid of carpet stains.
Which solution had it's pH level go up: Solution A or Solution B?

Background Paragraph: Second, sharing opinions with peers is helpful in building and increasing one's confidence. Clearly expressing what one is trying to say requires confidence and sufficient knowledge; people need to self dress what to say with their own knowledge or experiences. Thus, giving useful feedback definitely strengthens one's confidence. Moreover, peer feedback helps student to take more responsibilities in learning process. Besides doing assignments, students have to read others' work carefully as well so that one is not only responsible for his/her own work but also the others'.
Story: Stephanie is very active and social with the other students at school. She talks to her friends about the projects she is working on and they talk about what she can improve on and what areas she is excelling in. Adam is very quite and usually works on his projects alone and doesn't socialize with others at school.
Is Adam taking more responsibility in his learning or less responsibility?