Problem: Here is a premise:
But Dave Hanson's at least five inches shorter and fifty pounds lighter, too.

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Dave Hanson is shorter and lighter.

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Answer: yes

Problem: Here is a premise:
With its customary cheerfulness, Malay culture has added a comic element absent from the high drama of the original.

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Besides adding more comic elements to their culture, the Malays also added a sort of native surrealism in their art.

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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Problem: Here is a premise:
Lush red, juicy tomatoes, threaded together in garlands, hang from the rafters to dry, while almonds are shelled for sale to tourists, together with honey, figs, and the fruit of an industrious winter's gloves, scarves, caps, socks, and pullovers fashioned from local, coarse, cream-coloured homespun wool.

Here is a hypothesis:
Tomatoes hang from the rafters to dry, while almonds are shelled for tourists.

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Answer: yes

Problem: Here is a premise:
During the consolidation process, the Legal Services Corporation technical assistance grants enabled the program to utilize the services of a skilled consultant and facilitator to move the process to conclusion, to send program staff to visit and observe other programs with well respected and technologically sophisticated centralized intake systems, to bring experts to the program to help design a transition to statewide administrative and personnel systems, and helped fund the statewide staff meeting which launched and celebrated the new statewide program.

Here is a hypothesis:
Legal Services Corporation grants allowed the program to use a skilled consultant.

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Answer:
yes