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Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:This is similar to the much/many, amount/number and less/fewer rules. You use "more than" for countable and "greater" for non-countable things.
Tani:

Aren't the numbers countable? If so, can't we use more than in this construction?


Please clarify.

by krazy800

Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:50 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: "greater than" vs. "more than"
Replies: 6
Views: 2689

When the positive integer x is divided by 11, the quotient is y and the remainder is 3. When x is divided by 19, the remainder is also 3. What is the remainder when y is divided by 19? Help me with this problem. I am getting "o". what is the OA. herez my approach x=11Y +3 from statement '...

by krazy800

Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:30 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Remainder
Replies: 5
Views: 1637

Excerpt from Stacey - Manhattan GMAT forums First, it shouldn't be "help the listener to determine" (although that is how lots of people would say it). You don't need the "to" - and, if you don't need it, then it's not going to be in the correct answer! Be careful about deciding ...

by krazy800

Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:00 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: SC doubt..tricky question
Replies: 3
Views: 1059

This question has stumped me. Does anyone have a good strategy for this? On a team, the number of males is 3 fewer than twice the number of females. If one male were replaced by a female, there would be an equal number of males and females on the team. How many members are on the team? a 14 b 12 c ...

by krazy800

Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:45 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Please explain 600-700 level question-algebraic translation
Replies: 3
Views: 1845

selfmade wrote:IMO B

Past Perfect tense needs to be used whenever there is "Since" ...

I believe its present perfect tense

by krazy800

Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:22 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: gmat prep
Replies: 4
Views: 1349

There is growing demand in the state for “initiative and referendum,� a procedure that allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them. (A) allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them (B) allows voters to propose, pass, and to repeal laws (C) allows voter...

by krazy800

Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:53 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Ambiguous Pronoun - issue
Replies: 1
Views: 1043

A recent study of the United States tort system indicates that in 2004, accident, product-liability, and other tort costs totaled $260 billion, twice as many as 1990. A. twice as many as 1990 B. twice as much as 1990 C. twice the amount spent in 1990 D. a number double those of 1990’s E. a number...

by krazy800

Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:41 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: MGMAT SC
Replies: 9
Views: 3356

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hope it answers your query.

by krazy800

Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:13 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: no oa...
Replies: 3
Views: 1291

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by krazy800

Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:02 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Apartments
Replies: 11
Views: 3590

Source: Veritas Prep CR2 88. Paolo: . Such linkage is probably due to European Renaissance practice of using ships as asylums for their socially undesirable. For centuries oceans and human eccentricity have been linked in the literary and artistic imagination Tajudeen: No. Oceans have always been v...

by krazy800

Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:58 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Paolo
Replies: 18
Views: 4261

The record of the past is always incomplete, and the historian who writes about it inevitably reflects the preoccupations of their own time. (A) the historian who writes about it inevitably reflects (B) the historian writing about it will inevitably reflect (C) a historian writing about it inevitab...

by krazy800

Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:49 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: the historian writing about it
Replies: 6
Views: 1938

007.r.mason wrote:IMO E,

The reason is because Paolo argues that the relationship started in the renaissance period while the Tajudeen argues that the relationship always existed..
why not A? could some one explain?

by krazy800

Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:37 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Paolo
Replies: 18
Views: 4261

Source: Veritas Prep CR2 84. It is said that people should accept themselves as they are instead of being dissatisfied with their own abilities. But this is clearly a bad principle if the goal is a society whose citizens are genuinely happy if he or she is not pursuing personal excellence and is un...

by krazy800

Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:26 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: assumption
Replies: 20
Views: 6519

imo E 'Responding' should modify a noun, hence astronomers and not a scale is required in the clause. Eliminate A, B. Better word is 'likelihood' rather than 'how likely' Eliminate C particular asteroid or comet will collide shows surety of this scenario happening, while its actually a possibility ...

by krazy800

Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:54 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: A good SC!
Replies: 9
Views: 2131

Hmmm.. Quite a few experiments done by matchoman... When i gave gmatprep, used to get first 7 questions right and 8th one was used to be really difficult... But in actual gmat, the trickiness of the quant did not allow me to settle and get series of questions right!! @reply2spg.. Giving GMAT in US....

by krazy800

Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:02 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: Shocked with my GMAT experience!!
Replies: 57
Views: 15798