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by kartik1979 » Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:26 am
The exhibition of ancient Egyptian funerary art — imposing statues, intricately painted coffins, and numerous accoutrements, drew hundreds of people each day, equivalent to the number of visitors to last year’s Impressionist show.

A. equivalent to the number of visitors to last year’s Impressionist show.
B. the equivalent of those that visited last year’s Impressionist show.
C. equal to those who visited
D. as many as the visitation to
E. as many as visited
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by rkangmat » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:08 am
looks like C to me
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by asdf29 » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:06 am
Would it be right to say that you can rule out D and E because it should be 'as much as' because the number of visitors is not countable?
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by gmat740 » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:49 am
Equivalent is referred when we are dealing with uncountable nouns

Here the noun is countable to it has to be Equal

So answer C

OA please
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by nasa » Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:17 pm
hundreds of people visited, as many as visited the show las t year.
This is a neat comparison. IMO E
asdf,
numer of visitors is countable and so "as many as" is appropriate here
gmat470,
there is no restriction to say that equal should be used to compare countable nouns.
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by kartik1979 » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:03 pm
OA - E
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by gmat740 » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:36 pm
@Nasa
Thank you for your reply.

But I read in some notes,I don't remember where exactly I read that, but it stated that Equal is for countable and equivalent is for uncountable nouns
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by rohit9359 » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:43 am
Would (A) be correct if "equal" were to be used in place of "equivalent"?

Thanks,
Rohit.
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by virgo80 » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:05 pm
whats the source of this question ?
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