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by ketaki6 » Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:03 pm
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I got the answer right to this, but I don't understand why exactly I arrived at it. Is there a logical/rule-based explanation?

The commission's office of compliance, inspections, and investigations plans to intensfiy its scrutiny of stock analysts to investigate not only whether research is an independent functiona at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are paid for their work by a firm's investment banking division.


1. to investigate not only whether research is an independent functiona at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are

2. to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or they are

3. to not only investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or are

4. not only to investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stock they write about or are

5. not only to investigate whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stock they write about or when

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by cans » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:10 pm
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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:21 am
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by mukgera » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:49 am
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ketaki6 wrote:Source - GMAT Test Prep

I got the answer right to this, but I don't understand why exactly I arrived at it. Is there a logical/rule-based explanation?

The commission's office of compliance, inspections, and investigations plans to intensfiy its scrutiny of stock analysts to investigate not only whether research is an independent functiona at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are paid for their work by a firm's investment banking division.


1. to investigate not only whether research is an independent functiona at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are

2. to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or they are : Parallelism issues

3. to not only investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or are : Parallelism issues

4. not only to investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stock they write about or are : Meaning change

5. not only to investigate whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stock they write about or when
: subject of when is not clear