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by arorag » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:12 am
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
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by vittalgmat » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:42 am
E ??

OA?

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by gogetter08 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:59 am
Lets simplify this:

The right idiom shd be "more than.. as many" - "as"

univs are being compared, so 'those' is the approp pronoun

the participle 'charging' describes the 2nd set of univs

Acc to blah, more than three times as many univs charge x as those charging y

my ans is E
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by s_raizada » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:18 am
A, B, C - incorrect ,because correct idiom is as many ......as

So we are down to D, E

E - parallelism error

D is correct
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by anju » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:52 pm
My answer is E.

In choice D: the clause after as misses the subject "university"
it should be as those charging over.... hence E is the correct choice.

The IDIOM is "more than... as many.. as"
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by sukrant26 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:47 pm
whats the OA.....
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by arorag » Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:19 pm
This Q was from 1000 SC doc and OA given is A. But I am not sure.
My ans is E with the same logic of AS many AS
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by ajmoney09 » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:52 pm
My answer is E on this one....
D doesn't make sense and ABC don't fix the idiom error.
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by dileepsinha » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:11 am
as many...than is the correct idiom.
IMO A
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by ckwik23 » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:45 am
OA: E
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by iwill » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:54 am
Can anybody please explain ??
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Re: As many as???

by hengirl03 » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:43 pm
arorag 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
A is the best answer. B and C aren't grammatically correct. As for D and E, while they have complete the 'as many as' idiom, they have other errors. For example, D is should be "as 'those that' charge", and the "charging" in E commits a parallelism error. Therefore, A is the best answer.
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by nervesofsteel » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:29 pm
im confused with this..

ans should be E

as many ... than should not be a correct idiom...
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by hengirl03 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:18 am
the idiom that you should be worrying about is "more X than Y".

Maybe this will help. Read only the parts of the sentence that I have bolded.


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.
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by drgmatIL » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:42 am
so what is the right answer? can expert help here
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