Red Grinder species

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gmat_dec: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 32; Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:59 am; Thanked: 1 times

by gmat_dec » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:23 am

Unlike most Red Grinder species, the male and female speckled Red Grinder are very difficult to tell apart.

A. Unlike most Red Grinder species, the male and female speckled Red Grinder are very difficult to tell apart.
B. Unlike most Red Grinder species, the gender of the speckled Red Grinder is very difficult to distinguish.
C. Unlike those in most Red Grinder species, the male and female speckled Red Grinders are very difficult to distinguish.
D. It is very difficult, unlike in most Grinder species, to tell the male and female speckled Red Grinder apart.
E. Speckled Red Grinders are unlike most species of Red Grinder in that it is very difficult to tell the male and female apart.

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by hrishi19884 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:32 am

gender of "male and female in " "red gingers" and "speckled red gingers" is compared.

C should be the correct comparison.

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by subgeeth » Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:38 pm

what is wrong in B ??

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by analyst218 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:39 pm

B compares species with gender
Only C correctly compares species with species

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by hrishi19884 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:43 pm

subgeeth wrote:what is wrong in B ??

"Species" is compared to "gender" --wrong comparison

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by gmat_dec » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:37 am

OA E

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by akahuja143 » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:58 am

is there an explaination for the OA?

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by mj41 » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:22 am

Only E correctly compares species with species. All other answers compare species with gender and are vague in their correlation

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by gmat_dec » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:24 am

Cant those in C refer to male and female

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