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by gmatmachoman » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:04 pm
By enabling him to demonstrate the correctness of his fitting, it permitted him to significantly reduce the number of complaints and also aid for customers in finding the configuration that best suited them.

A. significantly reduce the number of complaints and also aid for
B. be significantly reduce the number of complaints and aid for
C. significantly reduce the number of complaints and aid
D. cause a significant reduction in the number of complaints and also aid to
E. significantly reduce the number of complaints as well as aiding

OA : C
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:07 pm
I would choose C

General Note: "and also" is considered redundant

A- Redundant "and also"

B- "to be significantly reduced" is awkward

C- correct

D- and also

E- parallelism issues, "aiding" is incorrect
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by hrishi19884 » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:08 pm
gmatmachoman wrote:By enabling him to demonstrate the correctness of his fitting, it permitted him to significantly reduce the number of complaints and also aid for customers in finding the configuration that best suited them.

A. significantly reduce the number of complaints and also aid for
B. be significantly reduce the number of complaints and aid for
C. significantly reduce the number of complaints and aid
D. cause a significant reduction in the number of complaints and also aid to
E. significantly reduce the number of complaints as well as aiding
Ans is clearly C

the only reason is "aid for" , "aid to" and "as aiding" are incorrect idioms.....rules out A,B,D,E

left is C, I am afraid, I have to go with that one ;)
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by gmatmachoman » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:10 pm
Guys , I think i shall hold on for atleast 5replies before posting OA....!

SO plz bear with me...
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by bhumika.k.shah » Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:07 pm
C

aid customers .. not aid for !

C for me :)
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by hrishi19884 » Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:11 pm
gmatmachoman wrote:Guys , I think i shall hold on for atleast 5replies before posting OA....!

SO plz bear with me...
Of-course we will. ...thanks one again!
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