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The answer is C.

(A) what men experience - the comparison is to the financial management difficulties that women experience, so "what men experience" is not in line with the comparison. It needs to be about the financial management difficulties
(B) men’s experience would - the comparison is to the financial management difficulties that women experience, so "men's experience" is not in line with the comparison. It needs to be about the financial management difficulties
(C) are those that men experience - yes, this makes the comparison to the financial management difficulties of women so it is correct
(D) financial struggles of men - this is close, but not right because the meaning of financial struggles is slightly different from financial MANAGEMENT difficulties (the management of finances is the difficulty, not the finances)
(E) men’s financial struggles do - the "do" at the end has an incorrect usage
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This one is about parallelism.

Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

Error Analysis

Here we have to identify the entity that is being compared, which is financial management difficulties that women experience are, so after "than" we need something like this one... are financial management difficulties that men experience in order to mantain parallelism.

(A) what men experience - Incorrect per error analysis
(B) men’s experience would - not parallel per error analysis
(C) are those that men experience - Seems good
(D) financial struggles of men - Incorrect comparison, financial difficulties vs financial struggles and also we do not have the helping verb "are"
(E) men’s financial struggles do - not parallel per error analysis

So (C) is our answer.
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Checking errors in every option:

(A) what men experience
Not parallel.

(B) men’s experience would
Compares women to men’s experience.

(C) are those that men experience
Looks good, hold.

(D) financial struggles of men
Compares women to the financial struggles of men

(E) men’s financial struggles do
Compares women to men’s financial struggles.

Answer C
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This is a comparison question.
Comparing difficulties faced by women vs difficulties faced by men.

A - "what" is ambiguous --> does not clarify whether it is referring to the difficulties faced by men.
B,D,E --> difficulties of women is not compared with the difficulties of men in the statement.
Meaning and parallel structure issue

On the other hand C clearly compares the difficulties of both women and men.

Hence, C is the answer.
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IMO correct answer is C

Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

(A) what men experience - Use of "that" in place of "what" will be more profound.
(B) men’s experience would - "would" is used for a hypothetical situation, but according to the intended meaning of the sentence, the result is obtained from a study, not a future hypothetical situation is being portrayed here; also "men’s experience" is not parallel with "financial management difficulties that women experience"
(C) are those that men experience - Correct usage, use of "those" maintaining the correct comparison; also parallel structure is maintained
(D) financial struggles of men - same error as B, it is compared "financial struggles of men with" - "financial management difficulties that women experience" - Incorrect
(E) men’s financial struggles do - Again same error as B - Discard
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The question deal with comparing the "financial management difficulties of women which may lead to bankruptcy than what men may experience".

(A) what men experience (INCORRECT - This incorrectly compare the financial difficulties of women to what men experience instead of the financial difficulties of men)

(B) men’s experience would (INCORRECT - "Men's experience would" is a wrong usage of verb tense in the comparison - "would" which is talking about the future is been compared to what is currently happening to women)

(C) are those that men experience (CORRECT - This is correct as it correctly compare the "financial management difficulties of women" to those men experience)

(D) financial struggles of men (INCORRECT - This changes the meaning of what is been compared from "financial management difficulties" to "financial struggles")

(E) men’s financial struggles do (INCORRECT - This repeats the error in "D" above)


Hence answer choice C.
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.
simple sentence: compare "difficulties of women & difficulties of men"
the difficulties that women experience are more likely than the difficulties that men experience are
=> the difficulties that women experience are more likely than those that men experience are
=> the difficulties that women experience are more likely than are those that men experience


(A) what men experience
(B) men’s experience would
(C) are those that men experience --> correct: follows from the above analysis
(D) financial struggles of men
(E) men’s financial struggles do
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

This is Sentence Correction (SC) question, and it is required to understand if the underlined phrase is the best fit for the sentence. In this sentence, it is said that financial difficulties of women are more likely to lead to bankruptcy than those of men. Let us analyze all options and identify if it is true:
(A) what men experience - In this option, an incorrect analogy is made between financial management difficulties, which lead to bankruptcy, and men's experience. Instead, it should be difficulties of men instead of their experience. Incorrect
(B) men’s experience would - Here again, the wrong analogy between difficulties of women and men's experience is made. Incorrect
(C) are those that men experience - This is the clear and concise version of the sentence Correct
(D) financial struggles of men - In this option, the wrong comparison is made between financial struggles of men and bankruptcy filings. Incorrect
(E) men’s financial struggles do - This option is incorrect, since the word "do" is not parallel to the previous part of the sentence. Incorrect

Answer: C
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

Comparison - difficulties that women experience are to lead to bankruptcy Vs are those(difficulties) that men experience

(A) what men experience - Incorrect comparison - Difficulties of women are to lead to Bankruptcy Vs What of men - second part of the comparison requires a verb
(B) men’s experience would - Incorrect comparison - Difficulties of women are to lead to Bankruptcy Vs men's experience - Would is incorrect
(C) are those that men experience - Correct
(D) financial struggles of men - Incorrect comparison - Difficulties of women are to lead to Bankruptcy Vs struggles of men - second part of the comparison requires a verb
(E) men’s financial struggles do - Incorrect comparison - not struggles but experiences.

IMO C
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

(A) what men experience ----this opion is not parallel to "the financial management difficulties"
(B) men’s experience would --- this opion is not parallel to "the financial management difficulties"
(C) are those that men experience --CORRECT
(D) financial struggles of men ---- in this case we have ambiguity and this is incorrect
(E) men’s financial struggles do ----this is not parallel to "are"

The answer is C
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

(A) what men experience
Incorrect comparison - likeliness is compared to difficulties

(B) men’s experience would
Use of future tense "would" is unnecessary here. Do financial struggles in men behave any differently now? - Eliminate

(C) are those that men experience
Comparison is parallel - Keep

(D) financial struggles of men
Incorrect comparison - likeliness is compared to financial struggles

(E) men’s financial struggles do
are-are comparison is a better parallel structure. Moreover why are financial management difficulties compared to financial struggles? - Eliminate

Answer is (C)
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

(A) what men experience
Financial management difficulties that women experience are.......than what men experience is not parallel. Incorrect.

(B) men’s experience would
Financial management difficulties that women experience are.......than men’s experience would is not parallel. Incorrect.

(C) are those that men experience
Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than are those that men experience.
has proper meaning and is grammatically correct. Use of parallelism is also correct.

(D) financial struggles of men
Financial management difficulties that women experience are.......than financial struggles of men is not parallel. Incorrect.

(E) men’s financial struggles do
Financial management difficulties that women experience are.......than men’s financial struggles do is not parallel. Incorrect.


IMO C
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.


Meaning:
1. Results of a recent study suggest that
2. financial management difficulties that women experience
3. are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings THAN
4. financial management difficulties that men experience

Errors:
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The question is about comparison, as Sir Charles said first of all we need to find heart :heart of the comparison.
What entities exactly is being compared?

The original sentence compares:
financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy
and
what men experience

So action 'are lead to' compared just a simple noun 'what men experience' - this is incorrect.

Attachment:
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We always have to compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges ;)

For more about comparison please refer --->

POE

From the error analysis we found out that we need to compare actions, so (A) and (D) can be eliminated:

(A) what men experience
(B) men’s experience would
(C) are those that men experience
(D) financial struggles of men
(E) men’s financial struggles do

Between (B) and (C).
the action in non-underlined part is 'are slightly more likely to lead to'
even if have simple one verb then we can replace it with 'do' in the second part of the comparison.
but we have slightly bigger comparison construction 'are slightly more likely to lead to'
it is better to use 'are' so the rest of the comparison can be ellipsed


(B) men’s experience would
(E) men’s financial struggles do



(C) are those that men experience

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C is the answer. :heart
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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

(A) what men experience
(B) men’s experience would
(C) are those that men experience
(D) financial struggles of men
(E) men’s financial struggles do

Analysis and POE:


The topic being tested here is the comparison. Comparison is made between the financial management difficulties that women experience vs. those that men experience.

A does not have a parallel structure that aligns with difficulties "that" women experience vs. "what" men experience. Hence incorrect.
The choices B D and E could also be eliminated because of incorrect parallelism.

The only option remaining is C and hence C is the correct answer.
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Lets get to POE

(A) what men experience

This is gone for wring comparison

(B) men’s experience would

This is okay okay but it would have been better if difficulties were mentioned .

(C) are those that men experience

Perfect , nice comparison

(D) financial struggles of men

Totally wrong comparison


(E) men’s financial struggles do


Again wrong comparison

C it is

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Results of a recent study suggest that the financial management difficulties that women experience are slightly more likely to lead to bankruptcy filings than what men experience.

(A) what men experience --> Incorrect. Pronoun error. SV error. Unsure to which noun is 'what' referring.

(B) men’s experience would --> Incorrect. Meaning error. Unsure which men's experience would.

(C) are those that men experience --> Correct. All the errors in the other sentences are corrected here and everything is in place.

(D) financial struggles of men --> Incorrect. Meaning error. Comparison error. Financial struggles is a very broad topic and different from financial management struggles.

(E) men’s financial struggles do --> Incorrect. Meaning error. Comparison error. Financial struggles is a very broad topic and different from financial management struggles.
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The intended meaning of the sentence is to compare the financial management difficulties that women experience with the financial management difficulties that men experience.

A and B refer to experience in general where as D and E refer to financial struggle.
This leaves us with C which IMO is the correct option.
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