TASK DEFINITION: You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: For more than half a century, the Passaic County Legal Aid Society has fought on behalf of the county's poor, in disputes ranging from housing to child custody to public assistance.
Sent 2: But for the last several years it has often done that job poorly, according to state and federal officials.
Sent 3: And barring a long-shot legal victory, as of Jan. 1 the autonomous county office will be replaced by a new agency whose administrators will report to a director based in Jersey City.
Sent 4: Federal legal aid officials drew up the new service area uniting Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties in June, insisting the change will trim administrative costs without compromising services.
Sent 5: The Passaic County office and its supporters see it differently.
Sent 6: They say top decision-makers will be too far from the individuals and non-profit agencies that rely on the office for help.
Sent 7: And in a federal lawsuit, the agency's leadership argues that a merger would jeopardize its educational programs and minority hiring efforts, and that its imposition amounts to bureaucratic bullying by state and federal officials.
Sent 8: Those same officials have repeatedly accused the Passaic County office of mismanagement.
Sent 9: Reviews since 1995 have found evidence of shoddy accounting, poor morale, excessive staff turnover, and double counting of cases - and alleged that the office made limited efforts to rectify the problems.
Sent 10: At times in recent years, the office has received its state and federal funding on a month-to-month basis, which one federal official called "one step short of defunding."Sent 11: Leaders of the county agency, which employs 14 attorneys, five paralegals, and nine support staff at offices in Paterson and Wanaque, say officials have "greatly exaggerated" the office's problems, which they call mostly bureaucratic.
Sent 12: "Just let them argue that their [merger] plan makes sense," Maxim Thorne, the office's deputy director, said of the higher-level legal aid officials.
Sent 13: "They could never replicate our services or equal the accumulated value of this office."Sent 14: Over the summer, the office reapplied for a federal grant to serve Passaic County in the coming year.
Sent 15: But Legal Services Corp. in Washington rejected the application, saying it failed to address the service needs of the entire tri-county area - a requirement under the new rules.
Sent 16: By mid-December, the federal body is expected to award Passaic County's federal funding - about $385,000 this year - to Northeast New Jersey Legal Services, the tri-county agency.
Sent 17: State funds of about $1.6 million could follow, although Thorne noted the state appropriated $927,000 of that amount through June 2003.
Sent 18: The state Treasury Department's legal services representative did not return repeated calls for comment.
Question: Why is there need for an alternative to the Passaic County Legal Aid Society?.

SOLUTION: 2, 4, 9, 15.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Ghost Inside tells the story of a young mother , Lin Xiaoyue , who flees an abusive husband , taking their young daughter with her .
Sent 2: She rents an apartment in a new apartment block but soon regrets the move as a neighbor tells her the apartment is haunted by the spirit of a young mother who threw her daughter out of the window before jumping to her death herself .
Sent 3: A series of strange occurrences convince Lin there really is a ghost before the spirit finally reveals herself to Lin .
Sent 4: The ghost tells Lin she too will one day committed murder\/suicide in the same fashion .
Sent 5: Lin finds some solace in the company of a male neighbor who helps fend off Lin 's husband when he finally manages to track Lin and his daughter down .
Sent 6: But something about this neighbor and several other inhabitants of the building does n't seem right .
Sent 7: When Lin 's husband shows up at the apartment late one night with two goons intent on taking his daughter back by force , Lin finds herself standing on her balcony , under encouragement from the ghost , considering whether or not to throw her daughter and herself off to stop her abusive husband from parting her from her daughter .
Sent 8: The police arrive and Lin is committed to a psychiatric institute .
Question: What do Lin and the ghost have in common?.

SOLUTION: 1, 2, 7.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Mary loved walking through the woods with her dog, Max.
Sent 2: Max and Mary would go on all sorts of adventures together.
Sent 3: They really loved looking for blueberries together and then falling asleep next to each other in the tall grass.
Sent 4: One day, as Mary was picking the blueberries, she turned around to find that Max was not there.
Sent 5: She became worried and ran off to look for her dog.
Sent 6: She looked in all of their favorite spots...next to the stream, in their secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and even inside the old cabin that sat in the woods.
Sent 7: But poor Max was nowhere to be found.
Sent 8: Nonetheless, Mary would not give up.
Sent 9: She kept looking and she found him not very far away.
Sent 10: He had seen a squirrel and run to chase it.
Sent 11: When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went.
Question: Where did Mary look for Max and how far did she have to go to find him?.

SOLUTION:
6, 9.