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by rah_pandey » Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:13 pm
Please answer this. and explain why D is wrong

The state has proposed new rules that would set minimum staffing levels for nurses, rules intended to ensure that at least one nurse is assigned for every four patients put through triage in a hospital emergency room.


A. rules intended to ensure that at least one nurse is assigned for every four patients put through triage in a hospital emergency room

* B. rules with the intent of ensuring one nurse at least to be assigned for every four patients to be put through triage in a hospital emergency room
* C. rules intending to ensure at least one nurse is assigned for every four patients in a hospital emergency room put through triage
* D. with the intent of ensuring that at least one nurse should be assigned for every four patients in a hospital emergency room that are put through triage
* E. and this is intended to ensure one nurse at least to be assigned for every four patients put through triage in a hospital emergency room
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by blackarrow » Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:41 pm
IMO is A

D is unidomatic

D. with the intent of ensuring that at least one nurse should be assigned for every four patients in a hospital emergency room that are put through triage - this sounds like the hospital room was put through triage rather than the patients!
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by ghacker » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:47 pm
IT'S IN THE SUBJUNCTIVE , SO SHOULD BE IS WRONG

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by rah_pandey » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:13 am
Why is relative pronoun such as "which" not used in the answer choices. Is there a special reason for not doing so?

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by ketkoag » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:31 am
rah_pandey wrote:Why is relative pronoun such as "which" not used in the answer choices. Is there a special reason for not doing so?
test makers want to check that how a person can handle the sentence if written in a different way with same meaning.. This is what i think about it.. :)

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by kaulnikhil » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:59 am
the reason why D is wrong is because it changes the meaning .. the original sentence says that they really intent on providing one nurse for every 4 patients ... where as 4 uses a SHOULD .. means an obligation ....u cant change the meaning of sentence in GMAT

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by apoorva.srivastva » Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:01 am
What is the OA

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by gmattarget700 » Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:57 pm
A should be the answer.

what is OA?

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