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Read the excerpt from Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s Freakonomics. The incentive scheme that rules sumo is intricate and extraordinarily powerful. Each wrestler maintains a ranking that affects every slice of his life; how much money he makes, how large an entourage he carries, how much he gets to eat, sleep, and otherwise take advantage of his success. The sixty-six highest-ranked wrestlers in Japan, comprising the makuuchi and juryo divisions, make up the sumo elite. A wrestler near the top of this elite pyramid may earn millions and is treated like royalty. Any wrestler in the top forty earns at least $170,000 a year. The seventieth-ranked wrestler in Japan, meanwhile, earns only $15,000 a year. Life isn’t very sweet outside the elite. Low-ranked wrestlers must tend to their superiors, preparing their meals and cleaning their quarters, and even soaping up their hardest-to-reach body parts. So ranking is everything.

Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the idea that the high-ranking sumo wrestlers enjoy many luxuries?
The incentive scheme that rules sumo is intricate and extraordinarily powerful.
The sixty-six highest-ranked wrestlers in Japan, comprising the makuuchi and juryo divisions, make up the sumo elite.
A wrestler near the top of this elite pyramid may earn millions and is treated like royalty.
The seventieth-ranked wrestler in Japan, meanwhile, earns only $15,000 a year.

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