Premise: These retained earnings are available to finance investment.

Hypothesis: Investment can be financed using the retained earnings.
Answer: yes

Premise: The new IT organization became responsible for such strategic activities as participating in the development of overall business strategies; prioritizing IT requirements; generating IT business plans; setting technical and architectural standards; managing user interfaces, outsourcing contracts, suppliers, and systems engineering; and allocating IT resources.

Hypothesis: The new IT organization does not have many responsibilities.
Answer: no

Premise: It's better to build a law enforcement system than to punish one outlaw.

Hypothesis: Effort is best spent to build a system rather to bring down one person.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: After he quit the Giants in 1991, he spent two years as a It bored him.

Hypothesis: He stayed on with the Giants until 1998.
Answer: no