Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: (This small difference would be further reduced if retail activities of rural carriers were not counted.) Choices: 1. If retail activities of rural carriers in both countries were not counted, then the difference would be reduced. 2. The gap would become wider if we did not consider retail activities of rural carriers. 3. If retail activities of rural carriers were not counted, then this slight difference would be further reduced.

1