In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.

passage: Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by either--as determined by Congress--the legislatures of three-quarters of the states or state ratifying conventions in three-quarters of the states. The vote of each state (to either ratify or reject a proposed amendment) carries equal weight, regardless of a state's population or length of time in the Union.
 question: can the articles of the constitution be amended?
Yes

passage: The term Salt Belt refers to states, in the United States, in which large quantities of salt are applied to roads during the winter season to control snow and ice. States in the salt belt include Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington DC. Other states such as Colorado and Utah are also considered part of the Salt Belt but use less corrosive substances.
 question: do they salt the roads in washington state?
No

passage: Some authors use more general definitions of ``positive definite'', including some non-symmetric real matrices, or non-Hermitian complex ones.
 question: can a positive definite matrix be non symmetric?

Yes