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by Ankitaverma » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:59 am
Local residents claim that San Antonio, Texas, has more good Mexican American restaurants than any city does in the United States.
(A) any city does
(B) does any other city
(C) other cities do
(D) any city
(E) other cities

Q/A-B why not d
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by Mike@Magoosh » Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:13 pm
Ankitaverma wrote:Local residents claim that San Antonio, Texas, has more good Mexican American restaurants than any city does in the United States.
(A) any city does
(B) does any other city
(C) other cities do
(D) any city
(E) other cities

Q/A-B why not d
Dear Ankitaverma
I'm happy to respond. :-)

I discuss this logical problem in this blog article:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-sente ... and-logic/

The basic idea is that San Antonio is a city, so it can't have more X than "any city", because "any city" would include San Antonio, and San Antonio can't have more X than San Antonio!! Nothing can be greater than or have more of anything than itself! That's why we have to specify "other", to exclude the item's comparison to itself.

Does this make sense?
Mike :-)
Magoosh GMAT Instructor
https://gmat.magoosh.com/
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