GMAT Question of the Day : Sentence Correction

A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five [...]

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A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase

B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

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schinni
#1. June 21st, 2006, at 8:56 AM.

D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

JR
#2. June 21st, 2006, at 9:26 AM.

Ans: D

ABHISHEK
#3. June 21st, 2006, at 3:48 PM.

ABHISHEK
#4. June 21st, 2006, at 3:56 PM.

explanation:
“the numbers of” is wrong construction.hence we can rule
out A,B,C.
Out of D &E
D)the constuction sticks to oroginal and propor usage of ” the
number of”.
E)cant be the answer as “raised by” converts the option to
passive form.
Hence D

unknown13
#5. June 21st, 2006, at 4:29 PM.