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SC Practice question #44

by missionmba » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:58 am
According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.

A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born
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by dileepsinha » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:32 am
IMHO B
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by reachac » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:00 pm
IMO A
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by aj5105 » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:34 am
IMO E..

more babies were born than had been born..

sounds weird but wud pick this one.
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by dileepsinha » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:12 am
I would choose "C" in GMAT because of the only choice offering parallelism. Can any one tell me whether I am wrong. What is the OA, please?
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by Suyog » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:48 am
IMO A
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Re: SC Practice question #44

by nitin86 » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:52 am
missionmba wrote:According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.

A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born
IMO A

B/E are incorrect as in these "women over the age of thirty" are compared with "born"

C/D - pronoun error....... they/there have multiple reference (babies/women)
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by niraj_a » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:01 am
A

seeing missionmba's performance in question 28, i'm skeptical about this question now.
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by wonder » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:32 am
imo A

we can say "born to women over the age of 30 than (to women) under it"
and (to women) can be omitted...

OA OA OA??
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by just_do_it » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:59 am
imo A.

there is a comparison in the original sentence and 2 things that are being compared are women in two age groups 1) over the age 30 and 2) under 30 years.

"to women over the age of 30 than (to women) under it (age 30)"

as Wonder said - (to women) can be omitted

what is the OA ?
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by missionmba » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:59 am
Hi guys

Pls see the link. Answer is in the first para

https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9669C8B63
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Re: SC Practice question #44

by Vignesh.4384 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:41 am
missionmba wrote:According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.

A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born

The sentence should have been

According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than were born to women under it.

Due 2 simplicty they hav taken off the second part and let it stay under it.
Meaning is not distorted
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by russland » Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:44 am
Now, it's different.
"But no, public health officials said today, it is a definite and striking trend: Massachusetts, they believe, has become the first state where more babies are born to women over the age of 30 than under it."
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by hamxa » Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:37 am
I had it between A and B.
But i think B can be ruled out as the additional born creates ambiguity for the succeeding pronoun it
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by kidcorpo » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:56 pm
missionmba wrote:Hi guys

Pls see the link. Answer is in the first para

https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9669C8B63
Is this a joke or am I missing something?

Because what I think I'm getting is that you made up a question based on a ten year old article and therefore don't know if the actual 'answer' is correct yourself.

Please tell me I'm mistaken.
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