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by kiran.raze » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:23 am
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

OA :C

Guys - could you pls provide an explanation for the OA?
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by vishubn » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:41 am
No attempts on this ???

I am having tough time to figure out why B cant be the OA

Ps. OA is C neways

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by 4meonly » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:03 am
I think because only C uses "as likely as" correct idiomatic expression.
Also D and E can be eliminated becuse they use bad logical construction
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by Mani_mba » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:08 am
My comments on why B cannot be the answer:

minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas.

I feel that "likely" should be subsequently followed by "to". So IMO, the above sentence is not complete.

minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas.

OA C resolves this problem

minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas

I am open to your views on this !!
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Re: 1000 SC - Q 42

by dingo001 » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:18 am
kiran.raze wrote:According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

OA :C

Guys - could you pls provide an explanation for the OA?
The only thing that stood out for me in favor of C was the proper idiomatic usage of "four times as likely"
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by Vinni » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:03 pm
I am not able to clearly eliminate A, B

is "more likely than" unidiomatic?

Is "likely" should always be followed by infinitive "to"
Can we take "likely to" as a general rule?
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by stop@800 » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:52 am
Vinni wrote:I am not able to clearly eliminate A, B

is "more likely than" unidiomatic?
No
Is "likely" should always be followed by infinitive "to"
Can we take "likely to" as a general rule?
Not sure
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by raunekk » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:20 am
between B and C,,,


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by rohangupta83 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:48 am
Is "likely" should always be followed by infinitive "to"
Can we take "likely to" as a general rule?
No - for example: It is ''likely'' that we may see rain today.
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by dileepsinha » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:43 am
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

"Likely" is to be followed by "to" hence, A, B, D...out
E uses a wrong idiom, as.....than, and faults on parallelism ..."for minor graduates than (for) other graduates.
C is right.
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by dileepsinha » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:46 am
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

"Likely" is to be followed by "to" hence, A, B, D...out
E uses a wrong idiom, as.....than, and faults on parallelism ..."for minor graduates than (for) other graduates.
C is right.
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by sumitkhurana » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:23 am
Why is A incorrect here ? I read somewhere that "plan on doing" is incorrect, and "plan to do" is correct ?
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by mjjking » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:04 am
As you can also find on MGMAT SC book, when you have twice, three times, four times etc the right idiom is: x times as...as
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by mjjking » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:04 am
As you can also find on MGMAT SC book, when you have twice, three times, four times etc the right idiom is: x times as...as
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by atulmangal » Sat May 21, 2011 12:02 pm
mjjking wrote:As you can also find on MGMAT SC book, when you have twice, three times, four times etc the right idiom is: x times as.likely..as
is this true????

Can't we say, 4times more likely than....????
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