In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
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Question: Statement: Since 1996 Legal Aid has increased its annual revenue by $6 million, renovated all of its offices and increased staff salaries Co which helps explain why 7 out of 13 chief (or managing) attorneys around the state are former Legal Aid lawyers who returned after stints in private or government practice. Choices:  1. Legal Aid raised its staff salaries and did some work on its offices. 2. Legal Aid workers got a ten percent raise on their salaries. 3. Legal Aid made some salary cuts for its staff, since 1996.

Answer: 1


Question: Statement: By now he might be overpowered, borne down by sheer force of numbers… . Choices:  1. He might lose out by now simply because there are so many.  2. He might be overpowered because there are hundreds of them.  3. He is the strongest and will never be overcome. 

Answer: 1


Question: Statement: Everywhere silence, and shuttered windows. Choices:  1. It was loud and the windows were wide open.   2. It was quiet and the windows were secured.   3. There was a storm coming so the windows were shuttered.  

Answer:
2