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by selango » Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:01 am
Data published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that in 1995 there were 113,100 women incarcerated in US prisons, over seven percent of the prison population in the US, three times as much as 1985.

A. three times as much as 1985

B. three times as many as 1985

C. triple what it was in 1985

D. triple the population in 1985

E. a population triple that of 1985's

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by shovan85 » Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:24 am
selango wrote:Data published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that in 1995 there were 113,100 women incarcerated in US prisons, over seven percent of the prison population in the US, three times as much as 1985.

A. three times as much as 1985

B. three times as many as 1985

C. triple what it was in 1985

D. triple the population in 1985

E. a population triple that of 1985's

Please explain the wrong answers.
IMO C

Parallelism between "in 1995" and "in 1985". Discard A B and E.

Between C and D in D "the population" is ambiguous as it can refer to total population not prison population.
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by kvcpk » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:35 am
I feel "It" is ambiguous in C.

I will go with D.
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by selango » Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:21 pm
OA D
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by shovan85 » Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:21 pm
selango wrote:OA D
So the population means the prison population? How can we know that ?
How "It" is ambiguous.... what else it can refer to except "prison population"?

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