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gmatdriller: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 418; Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:48 pmFollowed by: 3 members; Thanked: 6 times

by gmatdriller » Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:39 am

With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political
consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote
techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to be
able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of
money from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

A: cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and
succeed in raising large numbers of money

B: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in
raising large amounts of money

C: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising
large amounts of money

D: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising
large amounts of money

E: cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed
in raising large amounts of money

OA later after discussions.

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by amit2k9 » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:15 am

gmatdriller wrote:With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political
consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote
techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to be
able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of
money from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

A: cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and
succeed in raising large numbers of money --enabled ..to be able redundant. POE.

B: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in
raising large amounts of money -- toreach ..be successful not parallel. POE.

C: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising
large amounts of money -- verb+ing not correct usage. POE.

D: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising
large amounts of money -- to reach ..(to) succeed parallel. Correct.

E: cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed
in raising large amounts of money - same as A above. POE.

OA later after discussions.

Thus D it is.

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by mad2011 » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:23 am

gmatdriller wrote:With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political
consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote
techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to be
able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of
money from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

A: cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and
succeed in raising large numbers of money

B: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in
raising large amounts of money

C: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising
large amounts of money

D: cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising
large amounts of money

E: cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed
in raising large amounts of money

OA later after discussions.

IMO D

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by ranjeet75 » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:57 am

IMO [spoiler]D[/spoiler]

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by tanviet » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:19 am

D, it takes me 2 minutes. Strange, I have just failed the test today. Why now can I do this problem. I admit that in the test of today I feel not confident on each problem. Maybe because I want high score and loose calm.

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by crick » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:16 am

+1 for D.

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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:47 am

Nice work, all - and just a couple things to add:

-Especially for duongthang, who is worried about timing on a problem like this - I uncovered the "secret" to eliminating choices A and E by scanning for differences between A and B and looking for a decision point. The beginning and end of each choice is the same, making it a less-clear decision to find. But A has "to be able to" and B does not. That's the first decision point.

-That's a decision that I know has come up on previous official questions. "Enable...to be able" is an absurd meaning - it's redundant and just nonsensical. So you can eliminate both A and E for that.

-The difference with C is that it uses the modifier "succeeding" to modify the action "reach likely voters". But the two, more logically, are independent events...or even the "succeeding in raising money" is what allows the candidate to "reach numerous voters". So the two need to be treated as parallel events - C does not do that, so it's wrong.

-Then between B and D...D says the same thing, just shorter and cleaner. I guess you could call B redundant or "not parallel". But even if you can't describe why, you should see that D is just a cleaner more direct answer, and without a flaw in B you have your answer.

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by tuanquang269 » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:23 pm

Choice D is more preferable than B. Choice B, usage of verb "to be" is look not good as use directly "succeed"

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