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

As a result of the increased taxes announced on February 13, 1998, excise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco sticks vary from $2.25 to $5.35 for a carton of cigarettes and from $1.85 to $2.93 for a carton of tobacco sticks, depending in which province the tobacco products are offered for sale.

OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Taxes on cigarettes and tobacco sticks used to be lower
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Answer:
Yes


[Q]: Now, we offer a simple way to make this clear, express limit make sense, and that is precisely the understanding we suggest that existed in 1790. The only precedents that existed in 1790 were precedents of setting a term, and then when parliament was asked in 1735, '37, and '39 to extend it, they rejected it, and as amicus historians said, they rejected it because, as a pamphleteer described it, that would be effectively a perpetual term. parliament rejected more than twice OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes


Problem: Louis Frederick John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (born 14 March 1994), is a British aristocrat who is a member of the Spencer family. He is the fourth child and eldest son of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Victoria Lockwood. Nephew of Diana, Princess of Wales, and first cousin to Prince William and Prince Harry, he is the heir apparent to the earldom of Spencer.

Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Diana was his favorite aunt."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No

A: It's impossible to say


Q: Laurent Lavigne has officially retired from politics.
I take this opportunity to pay my respects to my Bloc Quebecois predecessor, Laurent Lavigne, to whom I wish a well deserved rest before another referendum on Quebec's political future is called and he is again called upon to help build a country, a plan that he must not have lost sight of in his retreat in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No


And after she had spoken, Bertha Spahr also spoke, as well. She's the department chairperson, and, actually, I had her as a science teacher. And she presented information to the board, documents, that she and I believe other members of the science department had researched on, I guess cases that had been set down before on creationism in the public school system or something of that nature, just to show them that, you know, if they were still considering this idea, that they might, I don't know, be met with some litigation or something.
Bertha Spahr has talked to nixon OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say


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

CHICAGO (AP)  Nicole Branagh and Jenny Kropp won the AVP Kingston Chicago Open on Sunday, beating Kim DiCello and Kendra Van Zwieten 21-16, 21-19. After falling to the second-seeded DiCello and Van Zwieten in the third round of the double-elimination tournament Saturday, Branagh and Kropp rebounded to set up the rematch. The title was Kropp”s first, and Branagh”s 17th. Brad Keenan and Ty Tramblie won the men”s title in their first event together, beating top-seeded Ryan Doherty and John Mayer 21-19, 22-20.

OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Van Zwieten beat out DiCello to win The AVP Kingston Chicago Open.
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Answer:

No