In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.

[Q]: Statement: As Istanbul it was the seat of the Ottoman sultans, rulers of a 500-year Islamic empire that stretched from the Black Sea and the Balkans to Arabia and Algeria. Choices:  1. The Ottoman empire collapsed for a number of reasons, but its collapse is largely seen to have been an inevitability by most historians. 2. The Ottoman empire established a 500-year rule over territory that stretched from the Black Sea and the Balkans to the Arabia and Algeria. 3. The Ottoman empire established a 200-year rule over a comparably small territory.
[A]: 2


[Q]: Statement: no that's for sure i mean it's it's kind of sad when you have to give them more than one life sentence in order to insure that they're going to stay in for a while i mean you know even that's what Choices:  1. It's sad when their sentences get reduced. 2. It's great that sentences aren't always the whole length. 3. It's sad that their sentences get reduced to a quarter of what they were.
[A]: 1


[Q]: Statement: As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves. Choices:  1. The old men come up with the scheme to delay upsetting Devine's family. 2. Michael has experience as a fisherman. 3. Michael will assume Devine's identity.
[A]:
3