Someone help me with 3 Qns?(identify sentence error)

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<p>Could someone help me with these three questions? with explanation each. Thanks a million!!!</p>

<li><p>Chess players find that playing against a computer is helpful to improve their skills, even though no chess-playing computers has yet won a champinonship.
A. to improve
B. their
C. even though
D. won
E. No error</p></li>
<li><p>Maya Madera proudly wore her sister’s most popular invention, a watch for winter campers that flashes the temperature in lighted numerals and sends out a loud alarm when pressing a button.
A. proudly
B. most popular invention, a watch
C. that flashes the temperature in
D. pressing a button
E. No error</p></li>
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<p>3.Businss people have met with the transportation department to voice its concerns about plans for a shopping mall in the community.
A. have met with
B.to voice
C.concerns about
D.plans for
E. No error</p>

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<p>D
B
E
but I am not sure, they are pretty hard</p>

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<ol>
<li>i think A is lil weird,but im going with E.
2.i remember posting a similar question on cc like this one, so i know now XD.
D is wrong because "when pressing a button", whats pressing a button? who is pressing?</li>
<li>E?</li>
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<p>D (yet to win)
D (the error is that the sentence seems to read the watch sends an alarm when it presses a button)</p>

<p>last one, i don't like Business people .... to voice its
but since that isn't a choice, I choose B. so the sentence makes sense; changing the verb does that</p>

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<p>the first two are definitely D, but the last one is tough. I would say either B or E</p>

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<p>D
D
E</p>

<p>Or so I think</p>

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<ol>
<li>A (it should be "in improving.") Also, are you sure you typed out the sentence correctly? "Computers" should be singular.</li>
<li>D (the watch is the subject, and "when pressing a button" suggests that the watch itself is doing the pressing.)</li>
<li>Again, are you sure you typed out the sentence correctly? It should read: Business people have met with the transportation department to voice their concerns about plans for a shopping mall in the community.</li>
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<p>ugh.. can someone explain why question 1 is D? "has yet to win"..??
dang,i suck at verb tenses.</p>

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<p>1 is certainly not d...</p>

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<p>where did you get tehse questions</p>

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<p>These questions are very controversial...the answer choices aren't even appropriate</p>

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<p>D, D, C? Maybe E for the third one.</p>

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<p>why 1 D?-.-</p>

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<p>I reverse my decision. 1 ought to be A. I was distracted by the pluralization of computer in the second half of the sentence.</p>

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<p>"has yet won a championship" is perfectly fine--it's like saying, "I have not yet won a championship."</p>

<p>1 is A because "helpful to improve" isn't idiomatically correct--it should read: Chess players find that playing against a computer is helpful in improving their skills, even though no chess-playing computer has yet won a champinonship.</p>

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<p>No it's not! Am I blind or something? 1 is completely wrong because it says 'no chess-playing computerSSSSSSSSS." That means that "has" is also blatantly incorrect because it doesn't agree in number with the subject of the verb "won." The problem is that "has" should be "have." I can see A, because it's not idiomatically common. But I'm surprised no one else mentioned the error I did, unless I'm hallucinating. The correct answer is A, I believe. Someone mentioned why.</p>

<p>Two is D, no question.</p>

<p>The third one is also WRONG, because "its" doesn't match "business people." You need to either make "its" become "their" or switch "business people" with "transportation department." </p>

<p>I'm sorry, where did you get these questions? They are terrible, unless you made typos. I'm just really agitated because they are so wrong, and don't even let you correct the problems! If you are using a guide book, put it down and set it on fire. Seriously.</p>

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<p>well there are obvious errors but you don't have them as choices
if you are gonna ask at least try to type the questions right</p>

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<p>yeah, i agree.
seriously, either u underline MANY of them INCORRECTLY,or the book u used is seriously whacked.
i concur with Baelor.</p>

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<p>These questions seem familiar tho...are they from the 6 online SAT by CB?</p>

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<p>OMG! I'm perfectly sure that there's no typo error. The questions are from CB online course. The answers CB gives are A. D. A.</p>