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by thegmatbeater » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:59 pm
The company claimed to have created a backpack so capacious that it could simultaneously hold four textbooks, a laptop computer, and necessary school supplies and so light and well-designed that even a 7th-gareder could wear it comfortably.

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b) supplies so light
c) supplies, and it was so light
d) supplies, yet being so light
e) supplies, yet so light
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by raunekk » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:06 pm
E???

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by nitingupta5 » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:47 am
IMO E!!!

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by thegmatbeater » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:07 am
OA is E, why yet?

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by Canman » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:44 am
"yet" is the conjunction needed to convey the logical contrast vs. expectations that a bag that large must also be very heavy

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by pradeepsarathy » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:46 pm
Why not D?

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by mksreeram » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:51 am
I too go with E

in D "being" is incorrect in almost all the GMAT questions. It produces passive form.

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