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by AIM GMAT » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:46 am
Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.

(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy
becoming
(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city's economy that
becomes
(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city's economy that becomes
(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city's economy becoming
(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
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by HSPA » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:56 am
A/C/D are out
Btw B and E

IMO E
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:11 am
AIM GMAT wrote:Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.

(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city's economy that becomes
(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city's economy that becomes
(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb (whom??) into a city's economy becoming
(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
IMO E.
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by rohu27 » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:44 am
so X that Y is correct idiom to be used here, answer chocies incorreclty use so X as Y
so eliminate A,C,D
also city's economy that becomes should be becoming (present tense)
so E it is.

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by champmag » Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:14 am
+1 for E.

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