Fee

correct answer D

atulmangal wrote:According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.
A. than those that charge
B. than are charging
C. than to charge
D. as charge
E. as those charging

In A, B and C, than is incorrect. The correct idiom is as many X as Y. Eliminate A, B and C.

In E, more than three times as many charge ....as those charging is not a parallel comparison. Eliminate E.

The correct answer is D.

Note the following:
As serves to compare ACTIONS. In E, charging is not a verb but an ADJECTIVE. As cannot serve to compare a verb (charge) to an adjective (charging). For E to compare actions, it would have to employ ellipsis to imply the following:

...more than three times as many...institutions...CHARGE under $8,000...as those charging over $16,000 CHARGE.

The implied meaning above creates an error of redundancy (charging and charge).

The ellipsis in D is better because it compares two ACTIONS without an error of redundancy:

...more than three times as many...institutions...CHARGE under $8,000...as CHARGE over $16,000.

theCodeToGMAT wrote:According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year as those that charge over $16,000.

A. as those that charge
B. as a charge
C. as to charge
D. as charge
E. as those charging

You might have got this correct. I have doubt though. If the idiom is As many x as y, then "as many independent institutions(X) as (charge)Y" ? How can this be possible?after "as" we need something to refer to "institutions". How can "charge" be correct here. "As many" takes "X" as close as possible to "X" (in this case institutions) not charge, which is far away from X!

vinay1983 wrote:

theCodeToGMAT wrote:According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year as those that charge over $16,000.

A. as those that charge
B. as a charge
C. as to charge
D. as charge
E. as those charging

You might have got this correct. I have doubt though. If the idiom is As many x as y, then "as many independent institutions(X) as (charge)Y" ? How can this be possible?after "as" we need something to refer to "institutions". How can "charge" be correct here. "As many" takes "X" as close as possible to "X" (in this case institutions) not charge, which is far away from X!

One use of as is to compare VERBS.
Mary wrote as many spy novels as romance novels.
Implied comparison:
Mary wrote as many spy novels as {she WROTE| romance novels.
The verb in brackets is omitted, but its presence is understood.
Note the following:
Even though as precedes spy novels, it does NOT serve to compare the nouns (one type of novel to another).
Rather, it serves to compare ACTIONS: how Mary WROTE spy novels to how she WROTE romance novels.

To simplify matters in the SC above, let's omit more than three times.
The basic meaning conveyed by the OA:
Of the institutions surveyed, as many CHARGE under $8000 a year as CHARGE over $16,000 [a year].
Here, as serves to compare what some institutions do (they CHARGE under $8000 a year) to what other institutions do (they CHARGE over $16,000 a year).

Hi GMATGuruNY,

In line with ellipsis , can we say that

more than three times as many institutions.... charge under $800 as institutions.... charge over $16,000.

jp78 wrote:Hi GMATGuruNY,

In line with ellipsis , can we say that

more than three times as many institutions.... charge under $800 as institutions.... charge over $16,000.

Yes.
Both clauses refer to the same subject:
independent institutions of higher education.

Hello, I have a solution for your problem. Different MBA programs have different fee structure depending on country to country. It might be not wrong if I say that you should join a MBA tuition. Hope this will help you
https://www.sibm.edu.in/regularmbafeestructure