Tricky 1000SC Q150

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1000SC Q150

At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls’ high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.

(A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are
(B) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes

Please help with this one.

C

[jasonc]

lots of ambiguous pronoun

'which' shouldn't be used here

Cs the only one left

caution: I suck at SCs, I got a 44 raw on verbal missing only (I should say all lol) SCs.

[pvnkreddy]

To me D is the correct answer.

We are talking about a community here, so "they" and "them" should not be used. That eliminates A and B.

Regarding C, "where 49 percent of the household incomes are ":
Percentage is singular, not plural.

Eg: 10 % IS the best I can give you, not 10% are the best...

So C is eliminated.

Between D and E, D is simpler...

Others, please correct me if I'm wrong!!!

[Stuart@KaplanGMAT]

To me D is the correct answer.

Regarding C, "where 49 percent of the household incomes are ":
Percentage is singular, not plural.

Eg: 10 % IS the best I can give you, not 10% are the best...

So C is eliminated.

% by itself is singular. % of a group is not.

Your example is correct usage. However, we'd say:

30% of people ARE left handed.

So, (c) does use the correct verb. (C) is also stylistically superior to the remaining choices and doesn't use any ambiguous pronouns: choose (c).

[gmattitude]

but why is it that WHERE is preferred to WHICH HAS ?

[stubbornp]

but why is it that WHERE is preferred to WHICH HAS ?

because for shiprock,new mexico,where is the appropriate.....not a which....

[Stuart@KaplanGMAT]

but why is it that WHERE is preferred to WHICH HAS ?

Because all of the choices that use "which" have other problems - otherwise "in which" would be just fine.

[missionmba]

i am still confused

where --> used to indicate place
which --> non restrictive claues

community where doesnt sound good