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722. The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a hurricane are useful mainly for gauging the storm’s structure and strength, not for the speed and the path of their movement.
(A) not for the speed and the path of their movement
(B) not for the speed and path of its movement
(C) not the speed and path of its movement
(D) and not the speed and path of their movements
(E) and not for the speed and the path of its movements
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IMO its C since we are talking abt the storm's properties:
The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a hurricane are useful mainly for gauging -- the storm’s structure and strength, not the speed and path of its movement.
Here its would refer to the storm. Also movements is not the correct word to be used here
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I like B.
The data collected .......... useful ... for ...., not for the speed and path of its movement
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I will go with 'E'
Useful mainly for X, and not for Y
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One rare question where almost everyone differs.
I go with B, and here's why:
"the storm's structure ...." means the reference to one storm. Therefore, "their movement(s)" can be discarded. Therefore A and D go.
Secondly, since there's a comma, "and" just after the comma is redundant. Thus D and E are inappropriate.
Of remaining B and C, B sounds better because of parallelism (I don't know if even this is called parallelism, since I am trying to find parallels between "mainly for gauging the ..." and "not for the speed...").
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Agree with (B).
In (E), "And" changes the flow of the sentence.
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kapslock wrote: Secondly, since there's a comma, "and" just after the comma is redundant. Thus D and E are inappropriate.
A comma before 'and' is not redundant, refer to OG # 206
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It is C.
This tests parallelism and pronoun agreement.
First, singular noun "storm" requires pronoun "its" in "its movement", not the plural "their".
Second, to be parallel, you'd say:
gauging the (X and Y) not the (A and B)
gauging the (structure and strength) not the (speed and path)
So...
The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a hurricane are useful mainly for gauging the storm’s structure and strength, not the speed and path of its movement.
-Supercat
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My Bad,
B/C are very close I don't think so that i wud have got this question correct on the test!
B and C both are corret it's just about the abvr. that needs to be taken care of.
The answer should be C.
Let's see a sentence"
Gmat is a test to gauage one's skill and speed, not knowledge
Gmat is a test to gauage one's skill and speed, AND not knowledge
Now if in this sentence we introduce "AND" it will read as if it is a "NECESSARY" that GMAT does not test knowledege, if it does gmat is no more a test.
I hope I am making lil sense.
yes! It shoud be C. "AND" is not required.
Thanks for posting! did learn something today need to be more careful!
Saurabh Malpani
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OA is "C"....altho I still don't understand why "B" is not the OA....B is definitely more ||.....I have no OE.
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