In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
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Question: Statement: For example, we looked at the efforts of four agencies (the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Interior, and Veterans Affairs) to both improve services and reduce staffing levels in their personnel offices through the better application of information technology. Choices: 1. Four agencies attempted to use information technologies to improve services. 2. Increasing staffing levels through the better application of information technology was one of the objectives. 3. Four agencies appreciated the impact modern information technology to such a degree that they advised other agencies to also make changes.

Answer: 1

Question: Statement: The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock. Choices: 1. It seems that the potential to go to prison has lost it's shock factor. 2. After the Madness has shown that being in prison isn't that bad. 3. The lesson learned from After the Madness is that no one wants to go to prison.

Answer: 1

Question: Statement: In endangerment cases, at least, the study seems to accept this explanation. Choices: 1. The study accepts what they're saying. 2. The study disagrees with what they're saying. 3. The study accepts what they're saying bout child endangerment laws.

Answer:
1