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As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.

(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize

(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize

(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing

(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing

(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Jul 14, 2018 3:18 pm

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BTGmoderatorDC wrote:As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.

(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize

(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize

(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing

(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing

(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
A: to sell...standardize...and to predict
D: to sell...take...and to predict
E: to sell...take...to standardize...and to predict
In each of these options, the verb form in red is not parallel with the surrounding infinitives in blue.
Eliminate A, D and E.

C: taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing its sizes and colors
Here, the two VERBing modifiers in red cannot be connected solely by a comma.
Eliminate C.

The correct answer is B.
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