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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:35 am    Post subject: Cartographers have long struggled with the problem of Reply with quote
Cartographers have long struggled with the problem of having the spherical Earth to draw on a flat sheet of paper.

(A) having the spherical Earth to draw on a flat sheet of paper
(B) having a flat sheet of paper on which to draw the spherical Earth
(C) how can one draw the spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper
(D) how they could use a flat sheet of paper to draw the spherical Earth
(E) how to draw the spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper

OA E
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
couldn't give a detailed explanation

Choose E
eliminated A and B because how ... seemed right

C and D seems wordy
also felt D gave more importance to paper than drawing itself
E simple and concise
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A. B C anyway out..
in D - the menaing is coming like ..rather using a pen or pencil they tried to draw using the paper...

E is obvious.
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