Please answer the following question by reasoning step-by-step.
Test for natural language inference.\nPremise: "Four boys hanging around a vending machine outside on a boardwalk with palm trees in the background."\nHypothesis: "A group of boys are hanging out at the beach."\nIs the hypothesis entailed by the premise?\nOptions:\n- yes\n- no\n- it is not possible to tell

yes
Four boys could be described as a group of boys.

One could infer that people on a boardwalk with palm trees in the background are at the beach.

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The answer is yes