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.

1. numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
2. numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
3. numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
4. number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
5. number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

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2 Responses to “GMAT Sentence Correction – Labor Department”

dheere says:

October 3, 2010 at 5:45 am

the answer is d

Nitin says:

June 22, 2011 at 12:58 am

I think d