sc from gmat club

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sc from gmat club

by thegmatbeater » Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:44 am
As a result of increasingly disastrous economic fallout from mortgage foreclosures, several suburbs of Cleveland, one of the nation’s hardest-hit cities, is spending millions of dollars to maintain empty houses in an effort to contain real-estate panic and urban blight.

(C) 2008 GMAT Club - [t]v06#9[/t]

one of the nation’s hardest-hit cities, is spending millions of dollars
one of the hardest-hit cities in the nation, should be spending millions of dollars
one of the nation’s hardest-hit cities, are spending millions of dollars
city in the nation that has been hardest-hit, is spending millions of dollars
a national hard-hit city, are spending millions of dollars
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by reachac » Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:04 am
IMO C

I am not very fond of the overall quality of this question though!

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by Vignesh.4384 » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:00 am
IMO C

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by thegmatbeater » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:06 am
yes it is C, I thought that E is a shorter option and correctly uses "are". not the shortest one is correct than...

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