Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
Input: Statement: and it's real hard to pry money out of him to to to do these things but i was i was able to convince him that it would be cost effective and that our board presentations would be much better and Choices:  1. He voluntarily paid more than his share of the presentation improvement costs. 2. It took a great deal of time and effort to persuade him, a frugal person, to part with his money..   3. He was ultimately persuaded that our presentations could be greatly improved by spending some money.

3