Mining Safety Violations

The administration has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their campaign to protect miners. (A)has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their (B)have increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their (C)has...

Your way of thinking is different. I give you that.

But do tell me, do you consider 2x as 2*x or something like, 22, 23, 24....29 ?

Get my point?

I feel there are two conclusions here. One would be "The recent boom in new home construction has finally begun to taper off", for which the premises given are the subsequent two lines. However, the last line, "People must not be as interested in buying new homes as they were even six...

Thanks Bill. That clears it up.

Lala, I had given the B as C. I have edited my earlier response.

Can you gimme an explanation why A is wrong? I went through the other forum - gmatclub. I still could not work out why is A wrong.

At odds with OA

Two decades after the Emerald River Dam was built, none of the eight fish species native to the Emerald River was still reproducing adequately in the river below the dam. Since the dam reduced the annual range of water temperature in the river below the dam from 50 degrees to 6 degrees, scientists h...

I had the same doubt. There is one more thing I wanted to ask. The last sentence in the stimulus, "The cost of living in the West End is greater than in the East End." , does this follow from what is given?

Or is this a dud question?

A difficult question stem - Nuclear Waste

It is repeatedly claimed that the dumping of nuclear waste poses no threat to people living nearby. If this claim could be made with certainty, there would be no reason for not locating sites in areas of dense population. But the policy of dumping nuclear waste only in the more sparsely populated re...