Premise: Salt-stone pillars held up many of the tunnels and a single barrel of water could collapse a pillar and break down the tunnel.

Hypothesis: The pillars were made of sand and collapsed with the incoming tide.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: no

Premise: In the legislative arena, it involved passing laws requiring certain actions by agency or program management, the use of various prevention and/or detection methodologies, and periodic agency reporting on the status of improvement efforts.

Hypothesis: The laws that were passed have lead to a greater percent of cooperation.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: It was sixteen years ago.

Hypothesis: She was sixteen years old when the dinosaurs came back to life.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
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Answer: no

Premise: The private sector and state organizations we visited built and maintained this foundation largely through the discipline of preparing routine periodic financial statements and annually subjecting them to an independent audit.

Hypothesis: The foundation was largely maintained by the organizations that we visited.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: yes