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by GmatKiss » Sat May 12, 2012 11:51 am
Any real estate professional will tell you that the value of a parcel of a land is most directly affected by the extent of its development and how close it is to a major business,

A) the extent of its development

B)whether it has been developed extensively

C) How extensively it has developed

D) the extent to which it has developed

E) How extensively it has been developed

IMO: D
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by ice_rush » Sat May 12, 2012 11:55 am
I think (E) should be the answer here. What's the OA?

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by GmatKiss » Sat May 12, 2012 11:56 am
ice_rush wrote:I think (E) should be the answer here. What's the OA?
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Reasoning??

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by ice_rush » Sat May 12, 2012 12:06 pm
(E) maintains parallelism. The non-underlined portion reads: ..And how close it is to a major business. What comes after and has to be parallel to what comes before and.


hope this helps.

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by confuse mind » Sat May 12, 2012 8:44 pm
IMO - E

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by jordan23 » Sat May 12, 2012 11:07 pm
What is incorrect with A?

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by krishna239455 » Sat May 12, 2012 11:16 pm
IMO: E

Its Parallelism "how extensively it .... and how close it ..."

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Sun May 13, 2012 7:24 am
Any real estate professional will tell you that the value of a parcel of a land is most directly affected by the extent of its development and how close it is to a major business,

A) the extent of its development (not parallel to "how close")

B)whether it has been developed extensively (not parallel to "how close")

C) How extensively it has developed (it's not the parcel of land that is doing the developing)

D) the extent to which it has developed (it's not the parcel of land that is doing the developing)

E) How extensively it has been developed (parallel to "how close")


This is a good example of how the portion that's not underlined ("how close...") dictates the change we have to make.
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