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.

[EX Q]: 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.
[EX A]: 1

[EX Q]: Statement: we can't even take care of the people that are hungry and homeless here Choices: 1. We have no homeless. 2. It is sad. 3. We can't take care of our homeless.
[EX A]: 3

[EX Q]: Statement: From a population of 20,000 it has grown into a metropolis of 2.5 million, with tightly clustered skyscrapers and some of China's highest groseng industries. Choices: 1. Its skyscrapers are clustered so tightly it looks they look like a single unit from afar. 2. From a population of 20,000 it has dwindled in numbers and has 10,000 inhabitants today. 3. Its population has increased by over two million.
[EX A]:
3