In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
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Question: Statement: oh taxes lord forbid forbid lord forbid taxes goodness gracious if we would uh plan our expressways a little better that ten dollars for the bridges and the roads we'd cut that in half and give to the teachers we might have such a problem Choices: 1. If the expressways were planned better some of the tax money could be used for education. 2. We are in a dire situation in need for funding in the field of education. 3. The expressways are planned just fine.

Answer: 2


Question: Statement: The latter factor exists because postal systems need to be designed to handle a wide range of mailpieces, generated by a wide range of mailers. Choices: 1. Postal systems only need to handle one kind of mailpiece. 2. Some of the mailers using the postal system do not know what they're doing. 3. A wide range of mailers are likely to use the postal system.

Answer: 2


Question: Statement: It's pitiful magic that can be worked without regard to the conjunctions of the planets; but it is all the magic that is left to us. Choices: 1. The only magic we have left doesn't rely on astrology. 2. The only type of magic we can do relies on the interactions of the stars and planets. 3. We used to be able to do astrological magic, but it doesn't work anymore.

Answer:
3