Sentence Correction

BeingAndNothing, ur Qs is -

Bihar is India's poorest state, with an annual per-capita income of $111, lower than in the most impoverished countries in the world

a) lower than in
b) lower than that of
c) and lower than that of
d) which is lower than in
e) which is lower than it is in

- I will again go for B. Here according to me, the problem is not the comparison but the parallelism. We are comparing the income of Bihar with the income of the most impoverished country but not between Bihar and the most impoverished country. And A is doing the same mistake - it is comparing between income of Bihar with any impoverished country but not with the income of any impoverished country. Now got it, BeingAndNothing?

a. nice correct answer
b. numbers are countable so needs more than not greater.
c. uses thier for pronoun and not in line with sungular subject gyrfalcon.
d. same problem as C but uses THEY
E. needs a pronoun.

Is E wrnong because it needs an IT.?

beingAndNothing wrote:Camitava:

- Per capita income in Bihar is lower than in other cities of the impoverished world.
- Its numbers now are five times greater than in the 1980s.

So are both of these sentences parallel?

thanks.

I dont think it is per capita income in -- is right usage.

It should be "per capita income of"

And ofcourse parallelism should be taken care of.

Raj:
Please, what's the answer?

ssuarezo wrote:Raj:
Please, what's the answer?

OA is B

Where is Goel Mohit, there is talk about Numbers and he is not participating...

hemanth28 wrote:

ssuarezo wrote:Raj:
Please, what's the answer?

OA is B

OA CAN NEVER BE MORE THAN, WHERE IS GOEL MOHIT, NUMBERS ARE GREATER THAN, PLEASE CHECK YOUR OG-10

OA is A not B.

More than Vs. Greater than.

And I agree with the guy above regarding comparison problem, but the question tests reference not comparison.

I would like to clear the doubts of ‘hopefully’ and ‘beingAndNothing’ because I was making the same mistakes for comparison (a kind of parallelism) questions. I am assuming you guys are still following the thread.
The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five
times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's. .
(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than

Here the comparison is between numbers of arctic bird now and in 1970’s. So, the answer choice A has a parallel comparison.

As for the sentence quoted by beingAndNothing -
B) Small cars today are more fuel-efficient than those in the 1980s.
It can be rewritten as
Small cars are more fuel efficient today than in the 1980’s.

It's totally acceptable in gmat to put the thing being compared(its number) before the actual comparison made between two parallel nouns/clauses( now and in 1970's) .


I hope it helped.