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by jainrahul1985 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:36 am
The Environmental Protection Agency frequently puts mandatory controls on toxic substances that present as little risk as one in a million chances to cause cancer.
A. as little risk as one in a million chances to cause
B. as little risk as one chance in a million of causing
C. as little risk as one chance in a million that it will cause
D. a risk as little as one chance in a million for causing
E. a risk as little as one chance in a million for it to cause

OA B . Why is A and D wrong ?
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by sam2304 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:42 am
present the risk of causing ... is the correct usage.

IMO B
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by GMATGuruNY » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:33 am
jainrahul1985 wrote:The Environmental Protection Agency frequently puts mandatory controls on toxic substances that present as little risk as one in a million chances to cause cancer.
A. as little risk as one in a million chances to cause
B. as little risk as one chance in a million of causing
C. as little risk as one chance in a million that it will cause
D. a risk as little as one chance in a million for causing
E. a risk as little as one chance in a million for it to cause

OA B . Why is A and D wrong ?
The idiom here is RISK + OF + VERBing:

...substances that present as little RISK...OF CAUSING cancer.

Only B offers the correct idiom.

The correct answer is B.
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