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A research conducted at the university of California

by gmatdriller » Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:08 am
A research conducted at the university of California reports that there is an direct
link between the price of a pack of cigarettes and the likelihood that a teenager
will start smoking.

A. the likelihood that a teenager will
B: how likely a teenager will be to


Which of the two is better and why?
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by gmatdriller » Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:19 am
hello, any response to this question pls?

Sometimes, we gain knowledge not only from simply posting
OA's but also from exchanging ideas over what your opinions
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by naveenchandra kv » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:23 am
I strongly go with first option..

Read the complete sentence with option 2,

A research conducted at the university of California reports that there is a direct
link between the price of a pack of cigarettes and how likely a teenager will be to start smoking.

Follow the parallelism rules--

Between X ... And Y-- X and Y must be parallel

here between is followed by a noun " the price" .. so "and" should be followed by noun form only.. i.e "likelihood" which is correctly written in case of option 1.

So option 2 is not parallel with the construction -- by use of "how likely".

Hope it helps.
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by pritish2301 » Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:37 pm
As mentioned by Naveen, parallelism is maintained in A. A is correct here.

If B had to be used, the sentence should have been...
A research conducted at the university of California reports that there is an direct
link between how the pack of cigarettes will be priced and how likely a teenager will be to start smoking.

the AN in bold is an incorrect article in the sentence.
Could you please post the entire question for further analysis? Thanks!
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