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Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours

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by rphardu » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:41 am
Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours; if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer the battery can be expected to last.

A if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer
B rating the watt-hour higher, it is that much longer
C the higher the watt-hour rating, the longer
D the higher the watt-hour rating, it is that much longer that
E when the watt-hour rating is higher, the longer it is

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by kulhot » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:38 pm
(C) for me.Please post the OA.
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by vk_vinayak » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:30 am
rphardu wrote:Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours; if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer the battery can be expected to last.

A if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer
B rating the watt-hour higher, it is that much longer
C the higher the watt-hour rating, the longer
D the higher the watt-hour rating, it is that much longer that
E when the watt-hour rating is higher, the longer it is

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C is correct. The idiom tested here is: the more X, the more Y (here more is a generic term that can be replaced with any comparative words)

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by mv12 » Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:51 am
C for me...
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:44 pm
A and B can be eliminated right off the bat; manufacturers are not rating the watt-hour itself.

C is parallel and work well: "the higher..., the longer..."

D gets overly wordy and awkward by adding "it is that much", which ruins the parallel form.

E uses "it", which is ambiguous.
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by prabsahi » Sun Sep 11, 2016 8:14 pm
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:A and B can be eliminated right off the bat; manufacturers are not rating the watt-hour itself.

C is parallel and work well: "the higher..., the longer..."

D gets overly wordy and awkward by adding "it is that much", which ruins the parallel form.

E uses "it", which is ambiguous.

Also id it right to assume that 'when' refers to time an event takes places and so its usage in E is incorrect.Please clarify!!
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by GMATGuruNY » Mon Sep 12, 2016 2:27 am
prabsahi wrote:lso id it right to assume that 'when' refers to time an event takes places and so its usage in E is incorrect.Please clarify!!
Correct.
E implies that it is expected to last only at a particular moment: WHEN the rating is higher.
Not the intended meaning.
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