Airline

[vinay1983]

While airline travel can be detrimental to your health, many exercise experts point out that there is a surprising number of airports in the United States -even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

A. is a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

B. is a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities like New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks, pedestrian paths, and easily reachable during long layovers.

C.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

D.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities like New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths, easily reachable during long layovers.

E.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths, and easily reachable during long layovers.

[theCodeToGMAT]

Is the Answer {D}?

[mevicks]

While airline travel can be detrimental to your health, many exercise experts point out that there is a surprising number of airports in the United States -even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

A. is a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

B. is a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities like New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks, pedestrian paths, and easily reachable during long layovers.

C.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

D.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities like New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths, easily reachable during long layovers.

E.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths, and easily reachable during long layovers.

- is ... airports... Should be plural. Are. (a, b are out)
- out of (c, d, e) only d points out the intended meaning. During long stopovers you have the option of going to the parks to have a stroll. So, the contrast is correctly presented here. Although sitting is bad for your health u have the option to go to a park and get some activity done
c, e Seem to mention that during stopovers the airport is accessible which in fact is not the intended meaning. The person is already inside the airport during a stop over and the link to exercise is not presented here. Although if u consider the "like vs such as" rule of the gmat, c seems to be correct, but the intended meaning changes.
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Answer: "D"[/spoiler]

[theCodeToGMAT]

Vicks, the problem sited for A & B "is a surprising number of airports in the United States " is incorrect.
"is" is not judged by "airports" by is judged by " a...number"

Consider the sentence with:
"is the surprising number of airports in the United States " then "is" was correct.

Adding on your comments for "C", there's a incorrect usage of "that and that" parallelism
In "E", the modifier "and easily reachable during long layovers." is incorrectly used with "and" thus impacting the meaning of the sentence.

[mevicks]

Vicks, the problem sited for A & B "is a surprising number of airports in the United States " is incorrect.
"is" is not judged by "airports" by is judged by " a...number"

Consider the sentence with:
"is the surprising number of airports in the United States " then "is" was correct.

Hi Rahul,

I think in this sentence the phrase "a number of" means several, thus the usage of "are" seems to be correct. The object of the preposition of is plural (airports) thus we need a plural verb here.
There are several airports (and not there is several airports.)

If a numerical value was mentioned in the sentence it would have required a singular verb is. eg: The number of airports is 500.

Thanks & Regards,
Vivek

[theCodeToGMAT]

Vicks, the problem sited for A & B "is a surprising number of airports in the United States " is incorrect.
"is" is not judged by "airports" by is judged by " a...number"

Consider the sentence with:
"is the surprising number of airports in the United States " then "is" was correct.

Hi Rahul,

I think in this sentence the phrase "a number of" means several, thus the usage of "are" seems to be correct. The object of the preposition of is plural (airports) thus we need a plural verb here.
There are several airports (and not there is several airports.)

If a numerical value was mentioned in the sentence it would have required a singular verb is. eg: The number of airports is 500.

Thanks & Regards,
Vivek

I think you misunderstood me, appologizes for being unclear

I agree that sentence must contain "are" but justification you gave to eliminate A & B is incorrect:

For instance:
The number of hardworking student in this class is very large
A number of students in this class are hard workers..
both are correct

[faraz_jeddah]

Need expert reply here

[rakeshd347]

While airline travel can be detrimental to your health, many exercise experts point out that there is a surprising number of airports in the United States -even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

A. is a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

B. is a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities like New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks, pedestrian paths, and easily reachable during long layovers.

C.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths and that are easily reachable during long layovers.

D.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities like New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths, easily reachable during long layovers.

E.are a surprising number of airports in the United States - even those in the major cities such as New York and Chicago - that are adjacent to public parks and pedestrian paths, and easily reachable during long layovers.

This is a veritas prep question bank SC. Now I have done this question before. according to veritas prep OA is D.
Now some might argue here that the usage of "like" is not proper here. I did argue too first time when I did this sentence and I still argue that you can't use "like" to refer to examples.

BUT A and B has SV agreement error.
Now C and E can be eliminated on the meaning basis....just read the whole sentence from the starting and it says that airports are adjacent to public parks...make sense but now C and E also says that airports can easily reach during long layovers....So C and E has flaw by adding "and" at the end of the sentence.

I hope this makes it clear.

One word of wisdom.....Never use "like" in GMAT to give example. I have done OG12, 13,10, VR2, question pack1, paper tests and many more but never saw usage of "like" to give example and GMAT strictly prohibits that. According to veritas prep lot of reputed newspaper use it so it is ligit but here the BOSS is not newspapers its GMAC and we have to play by their rule.

Thanks

[Java_85]

I'm between C and D, but D sounds more correct.