Sentence Correction

In Wyoming, more students are provided with full scholarships to their local medical schools than are provided scholarships in local law schools of Nebraska.


a) In Wyoming, more students are provided with full scholarships to their local medical schools than are provided scholarships in local law schools of Nebraska.

b) In Wyoming they provide more students with full scholarships to local medical schools than Nebraska provides in their local law schools.

c) More of Wyoming's students are provided with full scholarships to local medical schools than Nebraska does for their local law school educations.

d) Wyoming provides more students with full scholarships to local medical schools than the scholarships at local law schools provided by Nebraska.

e) Wyoming provides more students with full scholarships to its local medical schools than Nebraska does to its local law schools.

My reasoning was, apart from parallelism and other issues with other options, Wyoming and Nebraska cannot do something because they are non-living things, my direction of thinking changed and picked the option which did not have this error, but my answer A was incorrect.
OA- E. Can anyone explain is it allowed for non-living things to do something in GMAT?

Hey y_roy,

I like the way you're thinking - but keep in mind that a state is also a government, and governments can do things, as can companies, organizations, teams, etc. (again, non-living but really comprised of living people):

Goldman Sachs earned a record 30% return

California spends more on prisons than it does on schools

China exports more consumer goods than any other nation

FC Barcelona won the Champions League tournament

Congress passed a bill


If an entity is composed of living things, than it as a group can perform verbs...

cheers!!!

Brian@VeritasPrep wrote:Hey y_roy,

I like the way you're thinking - but keep in mind that a state is also a government, and governments can do things, as can companies, organizations, teams, etc. (again, non-living but really comprised of living people):

Goldman Sachs earned a record 30% return

California spends more on prisons than it does on schools

China exports more consumer goods than any other nation

FC Barcelona won the Champions League tournament

Congress passed a bill


If an entity is composed of living things, than it as a group can perform verbs...

Hi Brian could you please explain why did we eliminate A ?