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by hritik » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:46 pm
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
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by gmatclubmember » Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:20 pm
hritik wrote: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

I will go with B.
Greater is incorrect here, so take out A and E.
We are talking about a bird so 'their' and 'they' incorrect so take out C and D.
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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:43 am
hritik wrote: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
Correct answer must be B
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by vishwas.arora » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:22 am
GmatKiss wrote:
hritik wrote: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
Correct answer must be B
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answer is A

Quoting Ron here,

let's put it like this:
more and greater are adjectives.
if X is an adjective and i say that 'NOUN is X', then i should also be able to describe the NOUN as an 'X NOUN'.

in other words, if i say 'this shirt is small', i should also be able to describe it as a 'small shirt' (which, of course, i can).

if you say 'the numbers are more', that means there are 'more numbers' than before. that doesn't make any sense: there aren't more numbers, just bigger numbers.

if you say 'the numbers are greater', though, that means that the numbers have gotten bigger ('greater'). that's what the sentence is supposed to be saying.

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by gunjan1208 » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:25 am
I think it should be A only. Greater is modifying the numbers and thus it is perfectly fine.


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