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C is correct - Considered as and considered to be is unidiomatic - hence this leaves us w/ C and E. In choice E it seems like most Japanese are virtually unavailable outside Yokohama (misplace modifier), hence incorrect.

2. why is D wrong??? What's the difference between C and D??? I know "Fewer" is used to describe countable things, like people, and "less" is used to describe an uncountable quantity, like soup. I am a little confusion with the answer choices given...

My choice: C - "requires... to make" - idiomatic

Synergy79, Could you please post all the answer choices. Thank you. My reasoning: 1. A - so [adjective] as to [verb] format: so depressed have sales figures been as a result that the government has launched several initiatives to actively encourage consumer spending. 2. D - C is incorrect because it is passive in tone - GMAT does not like passive sentences.

My answer choices and reasoning behind my choices: 8. C "and it is believed to have been" correctly modifies the Quetzalcoatlus; "Which" - in choices D & E is referring to "36 feet", hence incorrect; Choice A also refers to "36 feet" rather than the Quetzalcoatlus, hence incorrect. 18. D - here the cells are beating in unison, yet each cell has adopted an exclusive orientation. 21. C - On the GMAT, "if" is reserved for conditional "if-then" statements. If you're given a choice between if and whether, choose whether. 49. A

While larger banks can afford to maintain their own data-processing operations, many smaller regional and community banks are finding that the cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment and with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff are prohibitive. (A) cost associated with (B) costs associated with © costs arising from (D) cost of (E) costs of I narrowed it down to A & B based on the idiom "associated with"...Please explain your answer choice. 2. With a total population of less than two hundred and fewer breeding females than ever before, the American crocodile seemed a decade ago to be in danger of disappearing. (A) of less than two hundred and fewer (B) lower than two hundred and less © lesser than two hundred and fewer (D) fewer than two hundred and less (E) (E) of fewer than two hundred and of fewer

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800Bob, Thank you for the explanation.

The supply of oil being finite has become an economical and political consideration of the first magnitude for all modern industrial nations. (A) The supply of oil being finite has become an economical (B) The finite supply of oil has become an economical © That the supply of oil is finite has become an economical (D) The supply of oil being finite has become an economic (E) That the supply of oil is finite has become an economic I got this question wrong...could someone please explain to me how the OA is correct in this instance. Thank you.

Another vote for E

I choose C too.

The new contract forbids a strike by the transportation union. (A) forbids a strike by the transportation union (B) forbids the transportation union from striking © forbids that there be a strike by the transportation union (D) will forbid the transportation union from striking (E) will forbid that the transportation union strikes Could someone please help me understand the difference between Choice A and Choice B. Thanx.

Thanks sumeet. My bad...i did not read the sentence properly...

I choose A too... My reasoning: "would have guessed" and "would have been" - parallel construction

The man was always aware, sometimes proudly and sometimes resentfully, that he was a small-town Midwesterner who was thrust into a world that was dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than him. (A) who was thrust into a world that was dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than him (B) who had been thrust into a world that was dominated by more wealthy, educated, and polished people than him © who had been thrust into a world dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and people more polished than he was (D) thrust into a world dominated by more wealthy, educated, and polished people than him (E) thrust into a world dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than he I got this wrong...so, please explain you answer.