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by ani781 » Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:50 am
According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.
A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born

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by GMAT_2013 » Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:26 am
ani781 wrote:According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.
A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born

What exactly is being compared ?[/spoiler]

In this question they are comparing women over the age of thirty to whom the babies are born with women under the age of thirty
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by vinay1983 » Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:01 am
ani781 wrote:According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.
A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born

What exactly is being compared ?[/spoiler]
Age of the women. Usage of it makes this clear. Try searching for an antecedent for it. Maybe then you can appreciate the sentence.

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by sanjoy18 » Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:20 am
ani781 wrote:According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.
A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born

What exactly is being compared ?[/spoiler]
In this sentence, the word 'it' means 'the age of 30'. If we choose any other option apart from A, the meaning will distort to 'babies born / were under the age of 30', which is senseless.

A it is.
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