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by patanjali.purpose » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:53 pm
Surprising many professional pollsters, recent research suggests that the party affiliation of one's parents can predict voting preferences just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can.

a- can predict voting preferences just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can
b- can predict voting preferences as well as just demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can
c- can predict voting preferences just as well as will demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can
d- can work just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income at the predication of voting preferences
e- can work just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income at predicating voting preferences

VERITAS; Pls explain your pick

Will our pick change [spoiler]when we replace 2nd CAN with DO in A/B; OA-A[/spoiler]
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by GmatKiss » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:48 pm
Surprising many professional pollsters, recent research suggests that the party affiliation of one's parents can predict voting preferences just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can.

a- can predict voting preferences just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can
b- can predict voting preferences as well as just demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can
c- can predict voting preferences just as well as will demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can
d- can work just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income at the predication of voting preferences
e- can work just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income at predicating voting preferences

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by vk_vinayak » Tue May 01, 2012 5:33 am
I had chosen C, forgetting to notice the 'can' at the end of the sentence. Now, I agree with the above explanation.

Even if we replace 'can' with 'do':
B wont make sense: can predict voting preferences as well as just demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income do

A becomes suspect: can predict voting preferences just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income do

I think if we place 'do' imeediately after 'as well as', it might be correct: can predict voting preferences just as well as do demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income[/b]
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by heymayank08 » Tue May 01, 2012 8:56 am
hey,
why is C wrong in this case
even when
can predict voting preferences just as well as demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can.

the above mentioned cans are looking parallel...
pls mention where am i going wrong, or am i missing something else in this statement :)
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by rajcools » Tue May 01, 2012 9:33 am
in C there is a will too

c- can predict voting preferences just as well as will demographic data such as age, gender, education, and income can

so it doesnt make any sense
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by sam2304 » Tue May 01, 2012 9:48 am
I will go for A.

Option A - A can predict X just as well as B, C, and D can.
Option B - A can predict X as well as just B, C, and D can.

B - 'just' is placed wrongly and gives awkward meaning. Not sure if its idiomatic, but if you can replace 'well' with 'good' then you might be able to eliminate

Everybody can answer this question just as good as you, gmatkiss and vinayak can. ;)

I don't think the answer choice will be B even if we change it to 'do'. More appropriate one will be 'does', but 'do/does' are not parallel.

'do' will work only when we frame sentences with main verb alone without any auxiliary verb - 'can' here acts as auxiliary verb - this is completely my opinion. You can see the difference with the below example

A predicts X just as well as B, C, and D does.

C/D/E - we can directly eliminate as it does not make any sense at all.

Let me know the OA, quite interesting one :) ?
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by vk_vinayak » Tue May 01, 2012 10:05 am
I my view both A and E are grammatically correct. But in A, I feel that 'can' is too far away from 'demographic data'.

Are both 'in predicting' and 'at predicting' correct? If yes, can these two be used interchangeably?

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by ice_rush » Tue May 01, 2012 5:16 pm
I'd go with (A). (E) changes the meaning by inserting "predicating" - it is not the same as predicting.


What's the OA?
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by patanjali.purpose » Sat May 05, 2012 3:33 am
OA-A
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