I use leading questions all the time in government work to get information.
For example:
How long have you been feeding the neighborhood strays?
(It is a ticketable offence to house cats outside here. If a person answers with a period of time, they have admitted to maintaining strays)
I'm not saying that is the reason the inventory request is worded thusly but if I were an agent charged with getting the correct information I would not ask "how many illegal corals do you have." I would ask how many under 5cm, how many under 10cm, how many over 50cm, etc..
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