Unlike other cities, Cancun's commercial power throughout

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Unlike other cities,  Cancun's commercial power throughout the lowlands seems to be from using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands, which were a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities.  

A- Cancun's commercial power throughout the lowlands seems to be from using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands, which were a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities. 
B- Cancun's commercial power throughout the lowlands seems to have come using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands, a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities. 
C- The commercial power of Cancun's throughout the lowlands seemed to have come from using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands , a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities. 
D- Cancun seemed to be using its strategic at the foot of the highlands, which was a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities, in becoming a commercial power throughout the lowland.
E- Cancun seems to have used its strategic at the foot of the highlands, a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities, to become a commercial power throughout the lowland.

uvs_mba · Answer

How can it be E? 

strategic what??

I don't feel comfortable with any of the choices, and that because its a GMATPrep question, lol. But will pick B

SimaQ · Answer

All the answer choices are incorrect.... I am not joking

A, B, D and E incorrect comparisons... C awkward....

cmns18 · Answer

All seem bad. I would say it's between A or B. 
But I think the "were" in A is the wrong tense so I'll go with B

Please tell me you got this question in route to a V48

Damager · Answer

A- Cancun's commercial power throughout the lowlands  seems to be from  using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands,  which were  a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities. 
B- Cancun's commercial power throughout the lowlands seems to have come using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands, a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities. 
C-  The commercial power of Cancun's  throughout the lowlands seemed to have come from using its strategic position at the foot of the highlands , a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities.  commerical power of cancun's is incorrect  
D-  Cancun's  seemed to be using its strategic at the foot of the highlands, which was a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities, in becoming a commercial power throughout the lowland.  Cancun's usage is wrong should be concun ? 
E-  Cancun's  seems to have used its strategic at the foot of the highlands, a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities, to become a commercial power throughout the lowland.  Cancun's usage is wrong should be concun ?

Yurik79 · Answer

Agree! If is is Cancun and not Cancun's when my choice is E

gmacvik · Answer

This question is not correctly written, Choices D and E are wrongly written. I also came across this question on GMATPREP.

EZO, please verify the question from the GMATPREP test.
Choice D and E have 'Cancun' not 'Cancun's'.... If I remember correctly
and then E would be the answer

thanks

thadipalam · Answer

gmacvik, you sound to be true. 
Else, none of the answers are correct.

Unlike other cities should be followed by Cancun to keep parallelism.

neelabhmahesh · Answer

A, B and C compare cities with commercial power. but wats strategic in D and E

neelabhmahesh · Answer

A, B and C compare cities with commercial power. but wats strategic in D and E

EZO · Answer

gmacvik. You are totally right. D & E were written wrong:

D- Cancun seemed to be using its strategic at the foot of the highlands, which was a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities, in becoming a commercial power throughout the lowland.

E- Cancun seems to have used its strategic at the foot of the highlands, a source of jade, obsidian, and other valuable commodities, to become a commercial power throughout the lowland.

Sorry guys.... my bad, I posted it at late night just before I sleep.===> 3:28am
... I apologies :oops:

nick_sun · Answer

Why not "C", guys?

catgmat · Answer

(C) compares the commercial power of Cacun with other cities. It must compare the commercial power of Cacun with the commercial power of other cities to be right.

I think the main difference between (D) an (E) is the idiom ' use X to become', instead of 'use X in becoming', which is awkward. So (E) is the right answer. 

cheers!

goalsnr · Answer

D ,E correctly compares cities and Cancun

D uses the tense incorrectly.

E!

Unlike other cities, Cancun's commercial power throughout

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