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In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
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Statement: Any option to expand Medicare's benefit package-absent other reforms-runs the risk of exacerbating the program's fiscal imbalance and increasing government dissaving. Choices: 1. Medicare benefits can be expanded indefinitely without consequence. 2. Expanded Medicare benefits include better coverage for medication. 3. Expanding Medicare benefits could create government deficits.
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2

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Statement: Further, these coefficients determine the percent of total cost that comes from mail processing and delivery at a specific volume per capita. Choices: 1. Delivery costs are usually measured first by these coefficients. 2. Total costs are determined in part by these coefficients. 3. These coefficients are of no use when measuring total costs.
answer:
1

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Statement: The girl is a naive, but her mixture of optimism and spooky prescience gives her perceptions weight, and Hiditch has a subterranean existence that's constantly at odds with his He might well be a psychopath who has preyed on--and dispatched--other young women. Choices: 1. Hiditch might be a predator who has killed dozens. 2. Hiditch is a wonderful person. 3. Hiditch might be a predator.
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1