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Africa's black rhino population

by CappyAA » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:34 pm
Africa's black rhino population in the mid-1970's numbered about 20,000, ten times the estimated population of 2,000 in 1997.

A. the estimated population
B. that of their estimated population
C. more than the population's estimated amount
D. more black rhinos than their population estimate
E. more than that of their population's estimated amount




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by Vignesh.4384 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:48 pm
IMO B
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by stubbornp » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:57 pm
IMO E
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by harshita.sharan » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:08 pm
IMO B
Is it correct?

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by maihuna » Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:48 am
OA is A.

Here is ron's response

first:
something is mistranscribed here; 2000 is not ten times 2000.

second:
what's your question?
with which answer choice did you have problems?

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brief synopsis:

(e) is just ridiculous. if you looked at (e) for more than two seconds without rejecting it, you should go read a large number of correct OG answers (don't solve the problems - just read the answers) and familiarize yourself with the writing style. they will never be remotely as wordy as choice (c).
also:
"that of" doesn't make sense, as there's no noun in the first part of the parallelism to serve as the antecedent of "that".
"the population's amount" is either redundant or nonsensical.

(d)
wordy.
unnecessary repetition of "black rhinos".

(c)
same problem with "amount" as in (e).

(b)
same problem with "that of" as in (e).
Charged up again to beat the beast :)
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by tanviet » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:43 am
we have 3 type of "comma+modifier"

"comma+preposition" modify entire previous clause. see question"diet...with meat as "" in OG10

"comma+doing" modify entire previous clause and has logic place

"comma+comparative phrase" modify noun immediately prior to comma

check grammar first

ten time as...as is correct. ten time more than is wrong. c,d,e are out

that of is wrong because there is no "noun of". B is out

we do not need to check meaning and should not do so because it is hard to realize meaning error
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by brick2009 » Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:37 am
OA: A

POE:

b: their.. usage is incorrect
c.: amount????

D/E--wordy

A: stands

@doughthang.. you seem to have developed a great 'systematic" approach to SC probs .. ;-)
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by bob1212 » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:50 pm
A
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