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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:42 pm
today because of improvements in agricultural technology,the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.

A) double the apples that it has
b) twice as many apples as it did
C) as much as twice the apples it has
D) two times as many apples as there were
C) a doubling of the apples that it did
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by beat_gmat_09 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:49 pm
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:today because of improvements in agricultural technology,the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.

A) double the apples that it has
b) twice as many apples as it did
C) as much as twice the apples it has
D) two times as many apples as there were
C) a doubling of the apples that it did
double is used for numerical digits,
two times is not idiomatic twice is better.
the correct tense required here is past tense and not present perfect tense as the activity is compared with that of an activity in past , only B and C remains.
B is better one.
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by mohit11 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:01 pm
beat_gmat_09 wrote:
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:today because of improvements in agricultural technology,the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.

A) double the apples that it has
b) twice as many apples as it did
C) as much as twice the apples it has
D) two times as many apples as there were
C) a doubling of the apples that it did
double is used for numerical digits,
two times is not idiomatic twice is better.
the correct tense required here is past tense and not present perfect tense as the activity is compared with that of an activity in past , only B and C remains.
B is better one.
Correct explanation.
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:50 pm
can u explain out of B n C why B is better?
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by beat_gmat_09 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:08 pm
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:can u explain out of B n C why B is better?
Missed on the sequence of your option choices, you repeated "C" in your option choices.
I hope you are referring to C (actually E), if not then the C is flawed by the tense, if yes then -

As already mentioned double is used for numerical digits, and above all
E simply doesn't make any sense. Produces a doubling
how can doubling of something be produced ?
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by mohit11 » Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:07 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:can u explain out of B n C why B is better?
many is used for countable things, much for uncountable things.. (Apples can be counted).
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