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Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required that condominium associations receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and no more than 20 percent from other sources, like ground-floor rent for restaurants.

A. Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required that condominium associations receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and no more than 20 percent from other sources, like ground-floor rent for restaurants.

B. Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” requiring that condominium associations receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and have no more than 20 percent from other sources, such as ground-floor rent for restaurants.

C. Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required condominium associations to receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and have no more than 20 percent from other sources, such as ground-floor rent for restaurants.

D. Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required that condominium associations receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and have no more than 20 percent from other sources, such as ground-floor rent for restaurants.

E. Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required condominium associations to receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and to have no more than 20 percent from other sources, like ground-floor rent for restaurants.

Required X to Y >>> Condition, position, person, animal plant forces you to act in certain manner or to take certain action
Required that >>> Generally rules, regulations, laws, legislations enforce that certain steps need to be taken or that certain actions not to be taken
In this case, "that" must be used. Thus eliminate C & E.
Also, "like" is used for comparison and precedent only a noun or pronoun. "Such as" introduces examples. In this question, we understand that "ground floor rent" is given for comparison, so eliminate B & D.

Answer is A.
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please guys revise the source of this question. OA is A but many people disagree with like usage.
if it used for comparison, it should be : ' , income like ground-floor rent for restaurants.'
Gmat doesn't input ambiguous statements in SC question as It does in Math questions since Gmat verbal calls for simplicity and clarity of sentences not ambiguity.
Any way, I doubt this question and am quite confused.
please verbal experts, your inputs here will be highly appreciated.
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please guys revise the source of this question. OA is A but many people disagree with like usage.
if it used for comparison, it should be : ' , income like ground-floor rent for restaurants.'
Gmat doesn't input ambiguous statements in SC question as It does in Math questions since Gmat verbal calls for simplicity and clarity of sentences not ambiguity.
Any way, I doubt this question and am quite confused.
please verbal experts, your inputs here will be highly appreciated.
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It depends on whether the meaning intended is introducing example or comparing. Here introducing example is a better fit. Hence "such as" should have been used. Such a question is probably not expected in the real test.

(What is the problem with the source - is it not Veritas prep?)
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I don't buy "like" as introducing a comparison here. Remember that "like" only compares stated nouns, so it would have to be comparing ground-floor rent to "other sources." We can't compare them to the method of collection, since that noun doesn't appear. (In any case, those wouldn't really be parallel.)

So we're left using "like" to introduce an example. While "such as" is preferred, the GMAT has used "like" on occasion. We can't always get consistency on these issues! Perhaps the GMAT is bowing to popular usage on this one, since the use of "like" to introduce examples is routine in spoken English.
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Why is option C wrong ?

Hi abhishekmeister,

Here is choice C

Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required condominium associations to receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and have no more than 20 percent from other sources, such as ground-floor rent for restaurants.

This sentence is in command subjunctive .
Before we go in that particular moods of the sentence, let us just start with how many types of moods are there in English language.
They are : Indicative, Imperative or command, Interrogative, Conditional, and Subjunctive mood.

What we have here in the original sentence is command subjunctive. In command subjunctive we have bossy verb and its proper order .
Bossy verb + that +Subject + bare infinitive form of verb .
Now " that " is missing in C therefore C is incorrect .

Link for further information
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/moods

Hope it helps.
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Why is option C wrong ?

Hi abhishekmeister,

Here is choice C

Until 2010, a state tax regulation known as the “80-20 rule” required condominium associations to receive at least 80 percent of their gross income from their tenant-shareholders, and have no more than 20 percent from other sources, such as ground-floor rent for restaurants.
This sentence is in command subjunctive .
What we have here in the original sentence is command subjunctive. In command subjunctive we have bossy verb and its proper order .
Bossy verb + that +Subject + bare infinitive form of verb .
Now " that " is missing in C therefore C is incorrect .

Option C is 100% grammatically correct, but option D is preferred because of the context.
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