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by Mike@Magoosh » Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:14 pm
With Arcsun Corporation announcing their new home video system, Playlite has to upgrade their systems to compete with them.

(A) With Arcsun Corporation announcing their new home video system, Playlite has to upgrade their systems to compete with them

(B) With Arcsun Corporation announcing its new home video system, Playlite must upgrade their systems in competition with it

(C) Because Arcsun Corporation is announcing their new home video system, Playlite has to upgrade its own systems by competing with them

(D) Since Arcsun Corporation is announcing their new home video system, Playlite is to upgrade their systems by competing with them

(E) Since Arcsun Corporation has announced its new home video system, Playlite must upgrade its own systems to compete with Arcsun


The structure "with" + [noun] + [participle] is a confusing one on the GMAT SC, sometimes totally wrong and sometimes acceptable. For a full discussion of how to work with this confusing structure, see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2015/with-noun- ... orrection/

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by vickysan » Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:51 pm
With this question though, all I see is a super quick agreement in number issue.

Arcsun is one company, so we need the singular pronoun "it". Get rid of ACD.
Playlite is also a singular entity, so get rid of B.

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