Challenge: Weaving and zip merging: who yields to whom, and the 300/50-metre rule
Many students reason 'whoever is leaving has already made room anyway', and mentally let the merger go first. The CBR exam designer counts on exactly that intuitive, but reversed, assumption: the practical rule points the other way, and whoever misses that also misses why.
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