Problem: Here is a premise:
On a gross basis, businesses have been the biggest savers in recent years, accounting for over 70 percent of gross national saving in 2000.

Here is a hypothesis:
High business saving is bad for the economy, because the lay person does not benefit. 

Here are the options: OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: it is not possible to tell


Sentence 1: Even though foreign invaders stormed Portugal around 2000 b.c. , Madeira was discovered only a few decades before Columbus made his way to America.

Sentence 2: Foreign invaders attacked Portugal in 2000 b.c.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes


Question:
yeah it's hard to find something that'll take the heat as well as the freezing

Does it follow that "Proper heat and cold insulation are difficult to achieve in one product."?
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer:
yes


Q: If Even though more than 150,000 people in Shelby, Fayette, Tipton and Lauderdale counties qualify for public legal aid, the latest census shows a loss of 10,166 poverty-level clients in the area., can we say that "The amount of people in poverty is lower."?
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

A: yes


Premise:
"Tommy burst into its sacred portals eagerly, but his enthusiasm received a check."
Hypothesis: Tommy excitedly burst into religious places, but his excitement was curbed.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

it is not possible to tell


Sentence 1: Tito and Castro are examples of the latter, and they may soon have imitators, for it remains to be seen how many post-Soviet democracies will last.

Sentence 2: They wanted to show that there would always be imitators to past rulers.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
it is not possible to tell