SC Practice question #2

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SC Practice question #2

by missionmba » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:36 pm
In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

A. by using the company's earnings and to profit
B. by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
C. using the companies' earnings and profiting
D. with the company's earnings, profiting
E. with the companies' earnings and to profit


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by sibbineni » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:52 pm
IMO E

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by stubbornp » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:06 pm
IMO C


bcoz of parallelism....wats OA..

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by missionmba » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:28 pm
Pay with money sounds better to me than pay using money
company's --> singular
so i think its E
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by reachac » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:40 pm
IMO A

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by mksreeram » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:59 am
When we take about "Hope" we need infinite form "to" which is there only in A and E.

A --> Company's sinigular so not correct.

E is the answer

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by missionmba » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:18 am
guys good work

OA: E
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