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Statisticians analyzing the behavioral patterns of consumers who shopped during the holidays have discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is advertising exposure, not a reasoned evaluation of the products in question.
A) the behavioral patterns of consumers who shopped during the holidays have discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is
B) the behavioral patterns of consumers who shopped during the holidays and discovered the impetus to purchase expensive products to be
C) the behavioral patterns of consumers shopping during the holidays and discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is
D) consumers' behavioral patterns while shopping during the holidays have discovered the impetus to purchase expensive products to be
E) consumers' behavioral patterns while they shopped during the holidays have discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is
A) the behavioral patterns of consumers who shopped during the holidays have discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is
B) the behavioral patterns of consumers who shopped during the holidays and discovered the impetus to purchase expensive products to be
C) the behavioral patterns of consumers shopping during the holidays and discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is
D) consumers' behavioral patterns while shopping during the holidays have discovered the impetus to purchase expensive products to be
E) consumers' behavioral patterns while they shopped during the holidays have discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is
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Answer should be A
A) the behavioral patterns of consumers who shopped during the holidays have discovered that the impetus for purchasing expensive products is : who correctly points to consumers just mentioned before
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and we need that after discovered
Other statements miss the following or have error in these usage
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
There's a lot happening in this sentence, but there is nothing obviously incorrect or confusing about it, which means that (A) is a possible answer . Still, let's look at our other options.
Choice (B) confuses the actor of "discovered," which should be the statisticians. In (B) it sounds like the consumers "discovered" something, since "discovered" follows "and" and has the same form as "shopped." We can eliminate (B).
The use of "and" in (C) causes similar confusion even though "shopping" and "discovered" are in different tenses.
"While shopping" in (D) and "while they shopped" in (E)confuses the timing of these different actions, making it sound as though these statisticians are analyzing behavioral patterns while shopping rather than the statisticians analyzing the behavioral patterns of shopping.
The correct answer is Choice (A).
Choice (B) confuses the actor of "discovered," which should be the statisticians. In (B) it sounds like the consumers "discovered" something, since "discovered" follows "and" and has the same form as "shopped." We can eliminate (B).
The use of "and" in (C) causes similar confusion even though "shopping" and "discovered" are in different tenses.
"While shopping" in (D) and "while they shopped" in (E)confuses the timing of these different actions, making it sound as though these statisticians are analyzing behavioral patterns while shopping rather than the statisticians analyzing the behavioral patterns of shopping.
The correct answer is Choice (A).
