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by sparkles3144 » Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:42 pm
The normative model of strategic decision-making suggests that executives examine a firm's external environment and internal conditions, and in using the set of objective criteria they derive from these analyses, can decide on a strategy.

A. conditions, and in using the set of objective criteria they derive from these analyses,
can decide
B. conditions, and they use the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses in
deciding
C. conditions and, in using the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses,
deciding
D. conditions and, using the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses, decide
E. conditions and, in their use of the set of objective criteria they derive from these
analyses, they decide

Answer D

Can someone please explain?
I don't understand how examine and decide are supposed to parallel

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by theCodeToGMAT » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:10 am
The normative model of strategic decision-making suggests that executives examine .......... and ............... decide on a strategy.
So, IGNORE {B}, {C}, {E}

We need "and" before "comma"; ignore {A}

{D}
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by EducationAisle » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:41 am
sparkles3144 wrote: I don't understand how examine and decide are supposed to parallel
Well, both examine and decide are verbs, if that was your question.
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by chetan86 » Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:48 pm
sparkles3144 wrote:The normative model of strategic decision-making suggests that executives examine a firm's external environment and internal conditions, and in using the set of objective criteria they derive from these analyses, can decide on a strategy.

A. conditions, and in using the set of objective criteria they derive from these analyses,
can decide
B. conditions, and they use the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses in
deciding
C. conditions and, in using the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses,
deciding
D. conditions and, using the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses, decide
E. conditions and, in their use of the set of objective criteria they derive from these
analyses, they decide

Answer D

Can someone please explain?
I don't understand how examine and decide are supposed to parallel

Thanks!

D. conditions and, using the set of objective criteria derived from these analyses, decide

Here underlined sentence works as a modifier and it modifies the verb 'decide'.
You can ask how executives decide? The answer is : using the set of objective criteria derived from analyses.

If you remove this modifier then sentence structure would become 'xxx executives examine... and decide...'
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