As many as???

[arorag]

According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.

A) than those that charge
B) than are charging
C) than to charge
D) as charge
E) as those charging

[vittalgmat]

E ??

OA?

thanks
-V

[gogetter08]

Lets simplify this:

The right idiom shd be "more than.. as many" - "as"

univs are being compared, so 'those' is the approp pronoun

the participle 'charging' describes the 2nd set of univs

Acc to blah, more than three times as many univs charge x as those charging y

my ans is E

[s_raizada]

A, B, C - incorrect ,because correct idiom is as many ......as

So we are down to D, E

E - parallelism error

D is correct

[anju]

My answer is E.

In choice D: the clause after as misses the subject "university"
it should be as those charging over.... hence E is the correct choice.

The IDIOM is "more than... as many.. as"

[sukrant26]

whats the OA.....

[arorag]

This Q was from 1000 SC doc and OA given is A. But I am not sure.
My ans is E with the same logic of AS many AS

[ajmoney09]

My answer is E on this one....
D doesn't make sense and ABC don't fix the idiom error.

[dileepsinha]

as many...than is the correct idiom.
IMO A

[ckwik23]

OA: E

[iwill]

Can anybody please explain ??

[hengirl03]

According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.

A) than those that charge
B) than are charging
C) than to charge
D) as charge
E) as those charging

A is the best answer. B and C aren't grammatically correct. As for D and E, while they have complete the 'as many as' idiom, they have other errors. For example, D is should be "as 'those that' charge", and the "charging" in E commits a parallelism error. Therefore, A is the best answer.

[nervesofsteel]

im confused with this..

ans should be E

as many ... than should not be a correct idiom...

[hengirl03]

the idiom that you should be worrying about is "more X than Y".

Maybe this will help. Read only the parts of the sentence that I have bolded.


According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.

[drgmatIL]

so what is the right answer? can expert help here