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by rish » Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:16 pm
Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
(A) Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
(B) Because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses.
(C) Because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, new small businesses are not subject to the same applicability of formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity as established big businesses.
(D) Because new small businesses are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to them in the same way as to established big businesses.
(E) New small businesses are not subject to the applicability of formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity in the same way as established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
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by GoodThings » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:17 pm
Oh this one has got to be B.
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by capnx » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:21 pm
I think it's D.
A, B, E has pronoun problems (they/them are unclear)
C applicability is awkward.
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by rish » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:28 pm
capnx wrote:I think it's D.
A, B, E has pronoun problems (they/them are unclear)
C applicability is awkward.
I too thought D first. But isnt 'the same way as they do to established big' required ?
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Re: Formulas

by riteshbindal » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:03 pm
rish wrote:Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
(A) Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium. Incorrect. "They" is ambiguous. It is referring to big businesses.
(B) Because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses. Incorrect. "They" refers to forumlas over here. It should refer to small businesses. Formulas and big businesses are not growing. It is small business which is growing.
(C) Because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, new small businesses are not subject to the same applicability of formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity as established big businesses. Incorrect. It fixes the problem of "they" because "they" clearly refer to small businesses. But it introduces the error of parallelism.
(D)Because new small businesses are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to them in the same way as to established big businesses. Correct. Parallelism is correct here and also "they" is referring to small businesses correctly.
(E) New small businesses are not subject to the applicability of formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity in the same way as established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium. Incorrect. "They" refers to "big businesses" here.
I may be wrong, but trying my best here :D
D IMO. I have explained my reasoning in the quotes.

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by gmatv09 » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:52 pm
IMO D
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by capnx » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:01 pm
I think these are the idiomatic expressions (someone confirm?)

X applies to A as it applies to B.
X applies the same way to A as (*) to B.
(*) = "it applies" can be omitted in the second expression
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by nsrikanthshetty » Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:20 pm
the answer should be D as the modifier for small businesses should be near to what it is modifying. inspite of passive voice usage... the best one among choices would be D.
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by ranell » Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:49 pm
The best one among choices would be D
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by hemanth28 » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:13 am
In the option D what confused me the use of "them". I am sure that D is the best of all the options given however i have some confusion. From Manhattan SC I understand that "them" should refer back to object nouns. How did everyone come to a conclusion that "new small businesses" is the object ?

Am i missing something here.
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