Janet's team is working on a group document, which they store in an FTP system on the company server. On Friday, Claire and Malik download the document at the same time, and each makes edits. Malik uploads his document first. When Claire uploads her copy of the document, she erases all of Malik's work. What went wrong?
A) Team members did not use the same word processing program.
B) The team did not assign its members clear responsibilities.
C) The team did not have a system to handle version control.
D) Team members were not clear about the purpose of the revision.
E) The team did not consider the needs of the audience.

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The issue that occurred was that Claire overwrote Malik's work, which suggests that there was no system in place for version control. If a system for version control had existed, Claire would have been able to see that Malik had already made changes to the document and avoided overwriting them.

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