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 # Instructions
 
-Given a diagram, determine which plants each child in the kindergarten class is
-responsible for.
+Your task is to, given a diagram, determine which plants each child in the kindergarten class is responsible for.
 
-The kindergarten class is learning about growing plants.
-The teacher thought it would be a good idea to give them actual seeds, plant them in actual dirt, and grow actual plants.
+There are 12 children in the class:
+
+- Alice, Bob, Charlie, David, Eve, Fred, Ginny, Harriet, Ileana, Joseph, Kincaid, and Larry.
+
+Four different types of seeds are planted:
 
-They've chosen to grow grass, clover, radishes, and violets.
+| Plant  | Diagram encoding |
+| ------ | ---------------- |
+| Grass  | G                |
+| Clover | C                |
+| Radish | R                |
+| Violet | V                |
 
-To this end, the children have put little cups along the window sills, and
-planted one type of plant in each cup, choosing randomly from the available
-types of seeds.
+Each child gets four cups, two on each row:
 
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-There are 12 children in the class:
-
-- Alice, Bob, Charlie, David,
-- Eve, Fred, Ginny, Harriet,
-- Ileana, Joseph, Kincaid, and Larry.
-
-Each child gets 4 cups, two on each row.
-Their teacher assigns cups to the children alphabetically by their names.
+Their teacher assigns cups to the children alphabetically by their names, which means that Alice comes first and Larry comes last.
 
-The following diagram represents Alice's plants:
+Here is an example diagram representing Alice's plants:
 
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+# Introduction
+
+The kindergarten class is learning about growing plants.
+The teacher thought it would be a good idea to give the class seeds to plant and grow in the dirt.
+To this end, the children have put little cups along the window sills and planted one type of plant in each cup.
+The children got to pick their favorites from four available types of seeds: grass, clover, radishes, and violets.