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by gmat009 » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:50 pm
After several years of rapid growth, the health care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to doctors and hospitals.
A. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to
B. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying
D. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
E. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
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by sumiwali » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:35 pm
My pick E...whats the OA???
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by Bidisha800 » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:20 pm
Reluctantly (E) .... This a poorly written question.

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by codesnooker » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:31 am
Agreed with Bidisha800. IMO (E) too.

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by kris610 » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:41 am
Not a GMAT-standard question at all.

'proved unable' just doesn't seem right.

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by stop@800 » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:22 am
What is the source of this question?

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by pbanavara » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:00 pm
None of the options seem right .. what's the source ?

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by rohangupta83 » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:13 pm
My pick would be 'E' as well. However if the sentence ended with 'payments to' it would have been much easier to pick.

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