Question:
Based on the premise "The authors of the Clean Energy Future (CEF) report describe their analysis as an attempt to assess how energy-efficient and clean energy technologies can address key energy and environmental challenges facing the US (Brown, et al, 2001).", can we conclude that "The United States is faced with environmental challenges."? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
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Answer:
yes

Question: Sentence A: The view from the observation deck over 300 ft up is panoramic but hardly worth the effort.

Sentence B: No trip is complete without excellent pictures taken from the observation deck

If sentence A is true, how about sentence B?
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: no

Question: The taxi drew up at the Ritz.
The taxi drove straight past the Ritz and had to drive around the block.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: no

Problem: Here is a premise:
4The total change in net national saving from 1990 to 2000 was also affected by an increase in state and local government saving of about 0.6 percentage points.

Here is a hypothesis:
Net national savings changed 20% between 1990 and 2000.

Here are the options: OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: no

Sentence 1: But most of all, they despised the way he eroded the nobles' power and smoothed the path to an increasingly absolutist monarchy.

Sentence 2: He wanted to increase the power of the monarchy, to the chagrin of the nobles.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Premise:
"At a presort volume of 40 billion pieces, the postal service's cost curve goes through the current operating point discussed in the previous part of this paper."
Hypothesis: The cost curve is affected by the 40 billion pieces.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
it is not possible to tell