Teacher: This task involves creating questions from a given passage that involve some kind of complex reasoning (including numerical reasoning).
The generated questions must require looking at more than one part of the passage to answer. Try to use a variety of reasoning types in your questions (some of the sample reasoning types are illustrated in the 'positive examples' field) and also have a variety of answer types (spans, numbers, dates). A span is a continuous phrase taken directly from the passage or question. In such questions, the answer spans are recommended to be five words. Questions with answer type "number", are expected to start with "How many". For instance, "How long did an event last?" can be phrased as "How many years did an event last?". To increase diversity, try to create more questions for which the answer will be multiple spans. Please create questions that require AT LEAST 2 arithmetic operations as illustrated in the 'positive examples' field. You are encouraged to try DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS of operations and not just limit to the combinations shown in those examples. The more challenging questions you create, the better it is.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Passage: The outbreak of the Seven Years' War in Europe in 1756 resulted in renewed conflict between French and British forces in India. The Third Carnatic War spread beyond southern India and into Bengal where British forces captured the French settlement of Chandernagore in 1757. However, the war was decided in the south, where the British successfully defended Madras, and Sir Eyre Coote decisively defeated the French, commanded by Comte de Lally at the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760. After Wandiwash, the French capital of Pondicherry fell to the British in 1761. The war concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which returned Chandernagore and Pondichery to France, and allowed the French to have "factories" in India but forbade French traders from administering them. The French agreed to support British client governments, thus ending French ambitions of an Indian empire and making the British the dominant foreign power in India.
Solution: Which french settlement did the British capture first, Chandernagore or Pondicherry?
Reason: This is a good question since it involves a comparison around a particular event, "British capturing the French settlement", which requires looking at more than a single sentence.

Now, solve this instance: Passage: Christopher Columbus landed on the island on December 5, 1492, which the native Taino people had inhabited since the 7th century. The Captaincy General of Santo Domingo became the site of the first permanent European colonization of the Americas in the Americas, the oldest continuously inhabited city, and the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World. After more than three hundred years of Spanish rule the Dominican people Republic of Spanish Haiti. The leader of the independence movement Jose Nunez de Caceres, intended the Dominican nation to unite with the country of Gran Colombia, but no longer under Spains custody the newly independent Dominicans were Unification of Hispaniola. Independence came 22 years later after victory in the Dominican War of Independence in 1844. Over the next 72 years the Dominican Republic experienced mostly civil war and a Spanish occupation of the Dominican Republic (but Spain had not come to take away its independence) before permanently ousting Spanish rule during the Dominican Restoration War of 18631865. A United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (191624) lasted eight years between 1916 and 1924, and a subsequent calm and prosperous six-year period under Horacio Vasquez was followed by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo until 1961. A civil war in 1965, the countrys last, was ended by United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (196566) and was followed by the authoritarian rule of Joaquin Balaguer (19661978 & 19861996), the rules of Antonio Guzman Fernandez (19721978) & Salvador Jorge Blanco (19821986). Since 1996, the Dominican Republic has moved toward representative democracy and has been led by Leonel Fernandez for most of the time since 1996. Danilo Medina, the Dominican Republics current president, succeeded Fernandez in 2012, winning 51% of the electoral vote over his opponent ex-president Hipolito Mejia.
Student:
How many years in total did the United States occupy the Dominican Republic?