Premise: The Maharaja of Bharatpur used to organize formal annual duck-shoots here for British viceroys and other top officials as well as for fellow princes.

Hypothesis: There are still duck shoots organize here.
Answer: no

Premise: Expecting a huge marketing success, the company also made a decision to simultaneously release it in all possible variations: as an energy bar, diet chips, effervescent tablets and a carbonated beverage.

Hypothesis: The company released a wide variety of products into the market.
Answer: yes

Premise: Given the high-tech world of modern biology, the method by which the Scottish team managed to provoke this extraordinary dedifferentiation is almost old-fashioned in its simplicity.

Hypothesis: The world of modern biology is very low-tech.
Answer: no

Premise: We might increase the discount to 7a and find that we saved 7.3a on the volume that shifted.

Hypothesis: Increasing the discount might cause a savings in volume.
Answer: yes