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by schumi_gmat » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:55 am
One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company’s performance.

management decisions have at least as great an impact

decisions by management have a great impact

manager decisions impact greatly

decisions by a company’s management impact greatly

what a company’s management decides has a greater impact


I understand that there needs to be parallelism in nouns. But how is "atleast as great" correct comaprison?
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by logitech » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:17 am
I have the same problem with this question:

Management decisions" is parallel to "government policy" so A sounds okay but "at least as great" usage is confusing me!!

Can somebody please explain this ?
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by mberkowitz » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:57 pm
imo a by poe
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by raunekk » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:41 pm
imo:A

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by Jatinder » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:30 pm
IMO E

A: atleast as X as Y (Second as required)
B:great should be greater
C: greatly is wrong IMO, Moreover, imapct should be followed by on
D: same as above

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by vivek.kapoor83 » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:06 am
IMO C
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by scoobydooby » Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:24 am
logitech wrote:I have the same problem with this question:

Management decisions" is parallel to "government policy" so A sounds okay but "at least as great" usage is confusing me!!

Can somebody please explain this ?
at least as great as means " as great as if not more". if it said "as great as" it wouldnt have been a comparison. atleast as great means it may even surpass the impact of government decisions
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by logitech » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:09 am
scoobydooby wrote:
logitech wrote:I have the same problem with this question:

Management decisions" is parallel to "government policy" so A sounds okay but "at least as great" usage is confusing me!!

Can somebody please explain this ?
at least as great as means " as great as if not more". if it said "as great as" it wouldnt have been a comparison. atleast as great means it may even surpass the impact of government decisions
It does make sense. Thanks my friend.
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:59 am
but it shouldnt b at least as great as..howcm at least as gr8 works...pls explian.
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by scoobydooby » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:34 am
just found some dicussion on the usage in the following link

[https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/mgm ... t1192.html][/url]
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by NSNguyen » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:05 am
IMO: B
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by GMATGuruNY » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:44 am
schumi_gmat wrote:One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company�s performance.

management decisions have at least as great an impact

decisions by management have a great impact

manager decisions impact greatly

decisions by a company�s management impact greatly

what a company�s management decides has a greater impact


I understand that there needs to be parallelism in nouns. But how is "atleast as great" correct comaprison?
Ellipsis is the omission of words whose presence is understood.

The comparison in A employs ellipsis:

...management decisions have at least as great an impact [as government policy and the industrial sector have].

The words in brackets are omitted, but their presence is understood.

X is at least as great as Y means that X is as great as Y, if not greater than Y.

B, C, D and E do not preserve the intended comparison.

B: have a great impact does not imply a comparison.
C and D: impact greatly does not imply a comparison.
E: a greater impact means "definitely more impact".

Eliminate B, C, D and E.

The correct answer is A.
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by mundasingh123 » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:48 am
GMATGuruNY wrote:
schumi_gmat wrote:One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company�s performance.

management decisions have at least as great an impact

decisions by management have a great impact

manager decisions impact greatly

decisions by a company�s management impact greatly

what a company�s management decides has a greater impact


I understand that there needs to be parallelism in nouns. But how is "atleast as great" correct comaprison?


B, C, D and E do not preserve the intended comparison.

B: have a great impact does not imply a comparison.
C and D: impact greatly does not imply a comparison.
E: a greater impact means "definitely more impact".

Eliminate B, C, D and E.

The correct answer is A.
So does this mean that "although " is used only in the case of a comparison .
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by GMATGuruNY » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:53 am
mundasingh123 wrote:
GMATGuruNY wrote:
schumi_gmat wrote:One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company�s performance.

management decisions have at least as great an impact

decisions by management have a great impact

manager decisions impact greatly

decisions by a company�s management impact greatly

what a company�s management decides has a greater impact


I understand that there needs to be parallelism in nouns. But how is "atleast as great" correct comaprison?


B, C, D and E do not preserve the intended comparison.

B: have a great impact does not imply a comparison.
C and D: impact greatly does not imply a comparison.
E: a greater impact means "definitely more impact".

Eliminate B, C, D and E.

The correct answer is A.
So does this mean that "although " is used only in the case of a comparison .
Although is used to express a contrast:

Although it rained yesterday, I stayed dry.

As X as Y is used to make a comparison. Since this idiom is implied in A, we must assume that the intention of the sentence is compare management decisions to government policy and the industrial sector.
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by mundasingh123 » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:01 am
Although is used to express a contrast:

Although it rained yesterday, I stayed dry.

As X as Y is used to make a comparison. Since this idiom is implied in A, we must assume that the intention of the sentence is compare management decisions to government policy and the industrial sector.
Therefore the ideal method of solving this SC is
1) We note that a comparison is implied because of the implied idiom
2) Only consider those choices that have comparisons
3) the only choice that has comparison is E . Since itc hanges the meaning , reject E .
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