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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Qn:163

Because Halley’s comet changes orbit slightly during the seventy-six-year interval between passing close to Earth, it may veer onto a collision course with a planet sometime in the distant future.

(A) between passing
(B) of passing
(C) between its passes
(D) of its passes
(E) as it passes

Official Answer: C

posted by Ravanan at Thursday, April 13, 2006

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Anonymous said...: We have marked it as E but it is C. Could some one explain ??; September 04, 2007 5:35 PM
Anonymous said...: 'as it passes' gives the meanin that the dir changes while it is passing close to the earth.

But I guess the intended meanin is is that after one pass it changes it dir slightly befor it makes the second pass [ie: between its passes]; October 27, 2007 10:32 AM
Anonymous said...: I marked E as the answer.

I guess C is correct in the usage of the word "passes". Passes is also a noun and in the sentence "passes" act as a noun. not sure:); November 05, 2009 11:06 PM
DataWizard said...: Passing close to the earth is causing a drift in its path, makes sense.

interval "between its passes", if passes is taken as noun still don't make any sense and obviously earth has nothing to do with it after all, which makes the rest of the sentence pretty useless.

So E rocks; January 30, 2010 7:33 AM
Tomasz Sęk said...: well... AO is C. I was tricked with E though.; February 24, 2010 5:59 AM
Divu said...: where do you guys find the OA from??; March 08, 2010 2:45 PM
Anonymous said...: E is definitely wrong. It is mentioned that the comet changes the path in the 76 year interval. there is nothing to suggest that the path is changed because of earth.

The correct answer is C because, the comet comes close to earth and hence has a chance of colliding between the passes that occur.; June 14, 2010 1:59 PM
Unknown said...: furthermore, during the xxxx interval betweeen its passes is correct - interval between x and y (its passes)

A.; July 16, 2010 6:05 AM
Anonymous said...: The meaning of the sentence is'the orbit changes direction as it passes close to earth'. Now 'as it' is doenst convey exact time period of the passing. Hence ' during the seventy-six-year interval' has been put in. Stand alone 'during the seventy-six-year interval' doesnt make sense as the interval is not defined clearly. Hence the question to ask is 'what is the interval' and the answer ' interval between its passes close to earth'.

Hope the explanation goes down as intended; July 16, 2010 12:10 PM
www.alicante-3d.com said...: For my part one and all must browse on this.; December 03, 2011 3:38 AM
Anonymous said...: I have seen this earlier. Here is the response of Stacy Koprince from some other forum

This source is a poor source from which to study. Some non-native English speakers based out of somewhere in Asia basically pirated a bunch of questions from old paper-based GMATs but the questions are filled with typos and errors, often to the point that none of the answer choices is good or the question has been garbled so that it is no longer sufficiently GMAT-like. If you want to study from old paper-based GMAT tests, at least go buy clean copies from mba.com. (Though, really, those are so old that I don't recommend them as a good source for study, either.)

This one is an example of one in which all of the choices are poor. Something got lost in translation here.

We do need "between" because we're talking about an interval. An interval is between two things (or, in this case, between two passes). So that eliminates B, D, and E

Is C perhaps supposed to say "between its passes"? Below, it says "between it passes" and that's obviously not right. If it is supposed to say "between its passes" then I guess that's the closest thing to a right answer, but - really - I wouldn't even study this one. It's not sufficiently GMAT-like.; April 20, 2012 5:17 PM

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