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The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

A
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates keep

The greatest road system built in the Americas prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus was the Incan highway, which, over 2,500 miles long and extending from northern Ecuador through Peru to Southern Chile.
A..
B. Columbus was the Incan highway, over 2500 miles in length, and extended
C. Columbus, the Incan highway, which was over 2500 miles in length and extended
D. Columbus, the Incan highway, being over 2500 miles in length, was extended
E. Columbus, the Incan highway was over 2500 miles long, extending

could someone help me out pls?~

f2001290 · Answer

1. B 2. E Please confirm the answers so that I can explain.

envyk10 · Answer

1. A 2. E

isisalaska · Answer

1. B are keeping down (continuous present action that it is still going on) 2. E

jayhawk2001 · Answer

jamesk486 wrote:The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

A
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates keep

both X and Y is the correct idiom, where X and Y are parallel. B
is the only choice that maintains this parallelism.

jamesk486 wrote: The greatest road system built in the Americas prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus was the Incan highway, which, over 2,500 miles long and extending from northern Ecuador through Peru to Southern Chile.
A..
B. Columbus was the Incan highway, over 2500 miles in length, and extended
C. Columbus, the Incan highway, which was over 2500 miles in length and extended
D. Columbus, the Incan highway, being over 2500 miles in length, was extended
E. Columbus, the Incan highway was over 2500 miles long, extending

could someone help me out pls?~

The original sentence has a misplaced which. So, rule out A

C - missing verb in sentence after Incan highway.

D - road was not extended.

E - "the Incan highway was over 2500 miles long" is incorrect. I'd
expect a comma after "Incan highway".

My choice would be B though it isn't the perfect answer.

jainrahul1985 · Answer

The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

A
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates keep

Is the OA A/B . Experts please comment ?

jainrahul1985 · Answer

The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

A
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates keep

Is the OA A/B . Experts please comment ?

sameerballani · Answer

jamesk486 wrote:The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

A
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates keep

both X and Y is the correct idiom, where X and Y are parallel. B
is the only choice that maintains this parallelism.

jamesk486 wrote: The greatest road system built in the Americas prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus was the Incan highway, which, over 2,500 miles long and extending from northern Ecuador through Peru to Southern Chile.
A..
B. Columbus was the Incan highway, over 2500 miles in length, and extended
C. Columbus, the Incan highway, which was over 2500 miles in length and extended
D. Columbus, the Incan highway, being over 2500 miles in length, was extended
E. Columbus, the Incan highway was over 2500 miles long, extending

could someone help me out pls?~

The original sentence has a misplaced which. So, rule out A

C - missing verb in sentence after Incan highway.

D - road was not extended.

E - "the Incan highway was over 2500 miles long" is incorrect. I'd
expect a comma after "Incan highway".

My choice would be B though it isn't the perfect answer.

aftableo2006 · Answer

for the first one i think it is C and for the second one it is E

Stuart@KaplanGMAT · Answer

jainrahul1985 wrote:The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

A
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflects the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rates keep

Is the OA A/B . Experts please comment ?

Hi!

We can quickly eliminate D and E - "both" should be modifying "reflect", so putting reflects after both messes up the sentence.

C is also out - "the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping" is far too awkward.

A is also poorly structured. Since "success" precedes "both", "success" must apply to both parts of the list. So, A really reads:

The soft drink company's flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of ... its restructured global bottling system and [the success of] the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.

Since "the success of the extent to which..." makes no sense, A can be eliminated.

Only B gets all the modifiers in the right place. Simplifying B, we have:

"The... earnings... reflect both [the success of x] and [the extent to which y does z]"

which is grammatically correct and stylistically just fine.

Stuart Kovinsky | Kaplan GMAT Faculty | Toronto

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lunarpower · Answer

to add to one thing stuart said --

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:C is also out - "the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping" is far too awkward.

there's actually a very specific reason why this is wrong. see here (cross posted from another forum):
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/pos ... tml#p26678

it's important to know reasons for this sort of thing, because determining "awkward" vs. "non-awkward" is, for all practical purposes, impossible for those who are not native speakers of the language.

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