Student: Premise: "A hiker is climbing up a very steep mountain."\nHypothesis: "A hiker trying to make it to the top of a mountain before his friends do."\nIs the hypothesis entailed by the premise?\nOptions:\n- yes\n- it is not possible to tell\n- no.
Teacher: Let's think:

User
A hiker may be hiking alone and is not necessarily trying to get to the top before his friends do. So the final answer is it is not possible to tell.
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