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antismoking program

by cartera » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:29 am
A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

B. annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that
C. California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop
D. California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that
E. California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that


OA is D however, as far as I know, annually is an adverb, how could it modify packs?

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Re: antismoking program

by x2suresh » Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:19 am
cartera wrote:A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

B. annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that
C. California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop
D. California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that
E. California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that


OA is D however, as far as I know, annually is an adverb, how could it modify packs?
annually is not modifying packs..

It is modifying .. seen (verb)

Here is another example:

UBS earned $200 million annually from the business
--> Clearly annullay is modifying "earned" not "million"

UBS earlned annually
UBS earned monthly
UBS earned daily

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by mygmat.2009 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:29 am
IMO

annually is modifying "decline" in this case because if we take out the "California has seen" part the sentence, the sentence would still make sense.


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by krisraam » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:25 pm
A decade after initiating the nations most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program should modify California

A, B,C are out.

E is eliminated as we are not sure what(drop) is more than twice as great as .
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by x2suresh » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:29 pm
mygmat.2009 wrote:IMO

annually is modifying "decline" in this case because if we take out the "California has seen" part the sentence, the sentence would still make sense.


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by dtaneja2 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:20 pm
cartera wrote:
A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

B. annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that
C. California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop
D. California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that
E. California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that

A B & D is out because drop and decline are redundent
C is out because declined tells about past but declining is happening since from decade and it doesn't happened at once

E

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Re: antismoking program

by umaa » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:20 pm
cartera wrote:A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

B. annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that
C. California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop
D. California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that
E. California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that


OA is D however, as far as I know, annually is an adverb, how could it modify packs?
A - Per capita, per person - Wrong
B - ANNUAL per capita - What does it mean? - Wrong
C - Same as A
D - Correct Answer
E - Same as A.