premise: A corporation's Human Resources department must determine annual bonuses for seven employees—Kimura, Lopez, Meng, and Peterson, who work in the Finance department; and Vaughan, Xavier, and Zane, who work in the Graphics department. Each employee will receive either a $1,000 bonus, a $3,000 bonus, or a $5,000 bonus, in accordance with the following: No one in the Graphics department receives a $1,000 bonus. Any employee who was rated Highly Effective receives a larger bonus than anyone in his or her department who was not rated Highly Effective. Only Lopez, Meng, and Xavier were rated Highly Effective. If Lopez does not receive the same bonus as Meng, which one of the following could be true?
hypothesis: Lopez receives a $3,000 bonus.