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Hi I think it is not about the maintaining the structure . When multiplication factor (like 3 times ) is used then it cannot be more than. Please make sure the OA is right and it is from a valid source.
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Three times as much as means three times x, where x is the trait of the first item or in other words 300 per cent
Three times more than means, 1x+3x, summing up to 4x or 400 percent.

Of course this is not what the text wants to assert. Its focus is on whether 40% more than is parallel to three times as much as. IMO, 40% more than is logically as parallel to as three times as much as. While the former is called comparative degree, the latter is called positive degree. Between logic and structure parallelism, logic is more paramount (at least in this context). This is my gut feeling.
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Since the subject is the ‘Dancing Doll line’ it needs to be compared to another such ‘line’.

Only E does so.

This means E is the right answer.
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