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.

[EX Q]: Statement: Unemployment hovers near 50 percent. Choices: 1. Unemployment rate hovers at 100 percent, we are in trouble. 2. We have an unemployment rate around 50 percent. 3. Almost half of all Americans are unemployed.
[EX A]: 3

[EX Q]: Statement: The data collected in the third phase are not specified before the first they emerge, often with surprises, from the initial observations. Choices: 1. The data collected in the third phase is the most telling and most significant part of the process. 2. There are two phases to data collection to keep the process swift. 3. Data collected in the third phase may be surprising and unexpected based on initial observations.
[EX A]: 1

[EX Q]: Statement: and you know if they just would have thought well gee if we don't you know if we put a freeze on new home starts that will bring the price of houses back up our tax base revenue will go up and we won't have to increase taxes and make it more of a burden on people that are living here Choices: 1. There is nothing they could have done to save homeowners from the tax burdens. 2. If only they had thought of ways not to burden the house owners with increased taxes. 3. There was a way they could have done this, that would have made life easy for home-owners.
[EX A]:
3