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epic flashcards! interesting to see them being downloaded even after 5 years ! evergreen I say.
thanks Eric.

On Flashcards - Pg 14 - on examples of "Less", I am confused.

1) "..less than 35 mi...". Aren't 0 to 34 miles countable, so we should use "fewer' instead of less.

2)"..spent less than $100" Anything between $0 and $100 is countable.

3) "..town spent less than 95%...", again any % between 0% to 95% is countable.

Shouldn't we use "fewer" in all the above examples instead of "less"? I am sorry but I am just confused!

Thanks,

Vivek

Vivek, you are right in pointing out that countable nouns should use the comparative form "fewer" as opposed to "less".

But as MGMAT SC says, for example, money is a countable noun. But we do not say one money , two money etc., though we can still count money! It is a unit and the rule when unit nouns are used is different.

Now, "fewer than $100" means that the number of dollar bills, say $1 bills (imagine 100 rupee notes), is actually less than 100. On the other hand, when you say "less than $100" means that the total money you have including all the kinds of dollar bills ($1, $10, $5, etc,.) doesn't sum up to 100 (imagine you have one 1 rupee note, two 20rs notes and one 50rs note; total 91rs).

Same is the case for other units like "litres" (unit for volume), miles(unit for distance), etc,. They are all units. You will not say "fewer than 5 litres"/"the distance between two points is fewer than 5kms" but "less than 5 litres"/"the distance between two points is less than 5kms".

Hope this helps. Sorry, hope MGMAT SC guide helps.

Thanks a lot for these. Just started reading them and they are good
Good to see they are even there on the AppStore!!
I know i am asking for a bit too much but can we have them on the Android Market too just a suggestive question?

Thank you so much. that is really helpful.

you did a great job. thank you so much for all the effort that you put to create this flashcards

Thanks!!!!

Hi Eric,

The flash cards are amazing!

I was going through the quant section cards(Probability and Geometry). Are we trying to find the probability of an area within X or within Y?

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aJ

Thanks for the GMAT Flashcards!

How much have you updated your flashcards since writing them back in 2006? I'm starting to study them but want to make sure the basic principles haven't changed too much.