1000 sc-6

[gmatnmein2010]

２．In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.

A. by using the company's earnings and to profit
B. by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
C. using the companies' earnings and profiting
D. with the company's earnings, profiting
E. with the companies' earnings and to profit

[money9111]

IMO A... i think the use of companies' is incorrect in all but the original answer... and we have parallelism with... To pay off the debt... and To profit

[sars72]

"to pay off" should be parallel with "to profit"

so, B, C and D are eliminated coz they are not parallel in structure

in A, company's is wrong

--> E is the correct answer

[money9111]

i think gmatnmein2010 keeps forgetting to post the answers

[thephoenix]

this is a case of parallelism
hoping to pay.... and to profit
B, C, D are out

by using is wordier than with so E is preffered