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ranjeet1975
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Medical Device Industry

by ranjeet1975 Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:17 am

Within medical devices industry, sales personnel less likely than support personnel to be enrolled in cheaper insurance plans imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend less time with each.

A. imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
B. that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend
C. that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending
D. imposing stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
E. that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending


Why B is wrong, this choice is right use of parallelism, impose..., require...., and spend...

OA is
    C
, is the use of 'spending' is right?
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Re: Medical Device Industry

by akhp77 Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:22 pm

I also have doubt in option B and C.

I believe comma + ing setup in C?
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Re: Medical Device Industry

by StaceyKoprince Tue May 04, 2010 9:32 pm

Can you please check your transcription of this problem? There are at least two words missing:

- there's an article missing in the first line; it should say "within THE medical devices industry"
- there's a verb missing in the first line; it should say something like "sales personnel ARE less likely"

Did you actually see this question yourself on GMATPrep? Or did you copy it from some other site? It's not a good idea to get these from the web; I've seen many that were transcribed incorrectly or that list the wrong answer as the right answer. Trying to study from those messes people up.

(I've also, by the way, seen people claim a question is GMATPrep when it's not, so be very wary of trying to find these online.)
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