California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent ha

Question

California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent have created a flurry of start-up companies and, in spite of the high employment rate ,  has not made possible for it to increase  tax revenues and the GDP of the state.

(A) has not made possible for it to increase
(B) have not made into reality the possibility of increasing 
(C) it has not made it possible to increase
(D) have not made it possible to increase
(E) have made it impossible to increase

aniket2045 · Answer

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To which is antecedent 'it' referring?..

Thanks in advance.

Nowwk · Answer

Could anyone explain why not E?

jackiepoulos · Answer

Why is the answer D instead of E? I feel that "not made it possible" is wordier than using "impossible."

PoojanB · Answer

Hi  @Nowwk  &  @jackiepoulos

E changes the meaning of the sentence,
D -says that despite of California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent creating so many startups(which have a high employment rate too), they(California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent) are unable to increase GDP of the state
Whereas E- states that its the california innovation culture and abundance of engineering which are making it impossible to grow the GDP. That is not the intended meaning.

Hope this helps

BALAGURU · Answer

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sir can you elaborate if you have time

StevenA · Answer

California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent have created a flurry of start-up companies and, in spite of the high employment rate , has not made possible for it to increase tax revenues and the GDP of the state.

If we exclude the additional information, the core sentence would be --> California's culture and talent have created  a flurry of start-up companies  and, (in spite of the high employment rate)
Since there is a conjunction 'and', we need the parts to be parallel. 
California's culture and talent:
1. have created a flurry of start-up companies, and
2. have not made possible for it to increase tax revenues and the GDP of the state

(A)  has  not made possible for it to increase
S-V agreement error.

(B) have not made  into reality the possibility of increasing 
Too wordy. Option D is better option

(C) it has not made it possible to increase
Same like A, S-V agreement error.

(D) have not made it possible to increase
Correct

(E) have made it impossible to increase
have not made it possible vs have made it impossible are two different things. Not made it possible means it could happen, but in this case, it is not happening.
Meanwhile, impossible means that it is not possible at all and no chance to make it possible in the future.

pandajee · Answer

"Not possible" - implies that it could happen, but may not. There is still some probability that things will happen.
"Impossible" - implies that it won't happen. Not going to happen in any situation or what so ever.

So, "Not possible" and "Impossible" are not exactly same.

gmat8055 · Answer

I think "it" is referring to california

udaypratapsingh99 · Answer

E changes the meaning.

Not  Making it possible
Making it impossible

Above two sentence are not same but different in the state before the action.

rightday1121 · Answer

To understand the difference between "impossible" and "not possible" in this context, also think of a similar differentiation between a statement such as "not cold" and "hot" as descriptions of temperature.

"Not cold" conveys that the temperature or current state is not entirely cold but can be cool, warm, hot. 
"Hot" conveys an implied meaning that it is obviously not cold at all but the opposite effect in temperature.

I bring that up to state that "not possible" conveys that these two factors are  not making it possible  to achieve tax revenues and GDP (have not made it possible to achieve tax revenues/GDP).
However, "impossible" doesn't leave any possibility so it 'shuts the door on possibility' (changes the intended meaning).

RICHA1189 · Answer

California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent have created a flurry of start-up companies and, in spite of the high employment rate , has not made possible for it to increase tax revenues and the GDP of the state.

Split  1# has / have 
 Parallelism  have and have - SV agreement - plural subject
 subject  California's innovation culture and abundance of engineering talent

Eliminate A and C

Split 2# to increase / of increasing 
Intent of Purpose- infinitive + base form of verb is used

Eliminate B

Now between D and E
As per the meaning of the sentence .. in spite of the high employment rate … something was not achieved

Hence D is the correct answer

(A)  has  not made possible for it to increase
(B) have not made into reality the  possibility of increasing  
(C)  it has  not made it possible to increase
(D) have not made it possible to increase  correct 
(E) have  made it  impossible to increase  meaning change

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