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by GmatKiss » Thu May 17, 2012 12:20 am
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

(A) by using the company's earnings and to profit
(B) by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
(C) using the companies' earnings and profiting
(D) with the company's earnings, profiting
(E) with the companies' earnings and to profit
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Thu May 17, 2012 1:06 am
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

(A) by using the company's earnings and to profit
(B) by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
(C) using the companies' earnings and profiting (altered intent)
(D) with the company's earnings, profiting (altered intent)
(E) with the companies' earnings and to profit


So IMO E
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by dario.brignone » Thu May 17, 2012 1:58 am
Parallelism:

... to pay of ... and to profit ...

B), C), D) can be eliminated.

I'm not sure whether the usage of "by using" in A) is wrong but "with" in E) is shorter and simpler.

So E)
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