There is a difference between the group of people let go of the object and the group of people hold on to the object. You can not know that they let go of the object when they were holding it.
This justifies what answer for what question? Q & A:
Premise: "A group of people hold on to a long skinny object."
Based on this premise, can we conclude that the hypothesis "A group of people let go of the object." is true?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
it is not possible to tell