Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

The world's oldest known child has been discovered in East Africa in an area known appropriately as the Cradle of Humanity.  The 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in north Ethiopia's badlands along the Great Rift Valley (map of Ethiopia). The skeleton, belonging to the primitive human species Australopithecus afarensis, is remarkable for its age and completeness, even for a region spectacularly rich in fossils of our ancient ancestors, experts say.  The new find may even trump the superstar fossil of the same species: "Lucy," a 3.2-million-year-old adult female discovered nearby in 1974 that reshaped theories of human evolution. (Related: "Fossil Find Is Missing Link in Human Evolution, Scientists Say" [April 2006].) .
Hypothesis: The child was found in an actual cradle.
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Answer:
It's impossible to say


Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

It says, and I agree with my colleague from the New Democratic Party on this, that instead of cutting a total amount of $48 billion between now and the year 2003, cutting $48 billion in higher education, social assistance and health, the government will only be cutting $42 billion.
Hypothesis: The speaker agrees with his Democratic colleague.
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Answer:
Yes


Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

The Auditor General, in his 1997 report, confirmed the importance of habitat restoration; yet this winter the federal government cancelled a mapping and inventory program developed on the coast to standardize essential salmon habitat mapping and inventory services and put displaced fishermen back to work.
Hypothesis: The federal government can not cancel programs
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Answer:
