A. the decreasing gap between the rich
and the poor
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The answer would be between A and B, but I'd choose B because A doesn't exactly influence his beliefs if you know what I mean.
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It seems like a and c are the same answer. however the answer is “players”, because they are not possessing anything. this is the correct answer, because the sentence is just looking for the plural form of “player”