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.

Statement: Special nozzles or other hardware are generally not required. Choices: 1. Special nozzles aren't usually required. 2. Special nozzles are typically needed more than other hardware is. 3. Special nozzles and other hardware are almost always required.
2

Statement: About half of it, however, is out of bounds to all but the military, but that still leaves huge areas of sand and surf. Choices: 1. The entire beach is open to the public. 2. The sand is a bright white. 3. Half of the area is off limits to the general public.
2

Statement: His personal fief alone was worth enough to feed and support some 2.5 million people. Choices: 1. It required a bigger fief to feed 2.5 million people. 2. He needed to double the size of his fief. 3. It was easy to feed 2.5 million people from his fief.

2