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Young female ballet dancers

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tarusardana
 Post subject: Young female ballet dancers
 Post Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 7:44 am 
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Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible.
(A) Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible.
(B) Good eating habits sometimes fail to be maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts caused by desiring to be as thin as possible.
(C) Because they desire to be as thin as possible, good eating habits are sometimes not maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts.
(D) Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits.
(E) Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible.

the entire sentence is underlined in the question
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balaji.raghavan.t
 Post subject: Re: Young female ballet dancers
 Post Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:00 am 
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Is the answer 'E' ?
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: Young female ballet dancers
 Post Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 1:05 pm 
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this is NOT a GMATPREP verbal question. please don't post non-GMATPREP questions in the GMATPREP folder; thanks.
once the forum software allows, i will move the thread.

this problem comes from "1000sc", a source whose questions (and answers) are at best sketchy and at worst misleading. DO NOT USE 1000SC.
the only questions in that source with any redeeming value are problems that have been lifted from gmatprep. the others are almost entirely worthless rubbish.

there is NO WAY that an official problem would contain choices (d) AND (e), both of which would be considered correct. although one may claim that there is pronoun ambiguity in choice (e) - see this post - there have been, and are, plenty of official problems containing a similar degree of "ambiguity" in their correct answers.
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