Premise: Also, in response to the increase in demand for boilermakers over the last few years, their ranks have increased from 15,444 active members in 1998 to 17,587* members in 2000 - an annualized growth rate of 6.7 percent.

Hypothesis: The boilermakers have saw an increase in their memberships in two years with a rate of almost seven percent.
Relation: entailment