input question: About two full-time staff positions will be lost along with other cuts in staff hours. If this premise is true, does that tell us:"Staff hours are being cut to offset lost revenue due to poor customer service."?

OPTIONS:
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- it is not possible to tell
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output answer: it is not possible to tell

Question:
Based on the premise "The peninsula and Sumatra, after centuries of common language, religion, and political, cultural, and social traditions, were divided.", can we conclude that "The peninsula and Sumatra that shared many common traits were split."? OPTIONS:
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- it is not possible to tell
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Answer:
yes

Question: Sentence A: Britain won, on average, 17 gold medals per Olympics in the five official games held in its imperial heyday before World War I. That average has dropped to only five medals per Olympics in the 17 held since.

Sentence B: Britain is one of the best countries in the Olympics.

If sentence A is true, how about sentence B?
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- it is not possible to tell
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: oh absolutely that's that's right
Your previous statement is also absolutely true.
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Problem: Here is a premise:
With fewer resources to expend and a growing client base to serve, LSC has embraced service area reconfiguration as one important way to insure that grants and contracts are made so as to provide the most economical and effective delivery of legal assistance to persons in both urban and rural areas.

Here is a hypothesis:
LSC believes that service area reconfiguration is the most important way to ensure economic efficiency.

Here are the options: OPTIONS:
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- it is not possible to tell
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question:
These persons should also know enough about performance or capability validation techniques to determine whether or not the agency's requirements are reasonable and effective.

Does it follow that "The requirements are effective and reasonable."?
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer:
it is not possible to tell