Between A & E, I would choose A.

'as many as visited' is missing a pronoun comparison. IMO, it should have been 'as many as those' visited.

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Hi guys! My two cents (my first comment actually)! For those of you who wonder about choice C. As icandy mentioned : "C equates numbers to people. Wrong".

People equal to people (social status, money, education, etc.). But in the sentence it is required to compare to the number of people. So as it is already known E is the answer.

Hope it helps!

Hi ,
Good Question. It is the question on comparison. Let me first simplify the question. We can strike of prepositional phrase 'of ancient Egyptian funerary art — imposing statues, intricately painted coffins, and numerous accoutrements'

The exhibition drew hundreds of people each day,equivalent to the number of visitors to last year’s Impressionist show.

A is wrongly comparing exhibition to the number of people visiting last year impressionist show
B and C are out for similar reason

Here we need to compare the number of people visiting(drawn by) the exhibition with the number of people visiting the last year impressionist show.

'as' should be the preposition that should be used to compare two actions and 'like' should be used to compare two nouns. D and E correctly uses 'as' but in D visitation is wrongly used instead of visited. E corrects the same.

Hope this helps. Thank You

what is really being compared here, it's the number of people that did the visiting, to both the Egyptian exhibit and the impressionist exhibit, as many as, is the correct idiom and because the impressionist happened in the past, no specifics simple past form of visited is best fit. E is the correct answer as it fulfills all these requirements
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The answer is indeed E. Because equal or equivalent means more than just numbers. It has more to do with probably quality, uncountable abstractions than countable numbers.

In a similar OG question, let’s look at OG’s reasoning (OG 10 SC Q 132 )

According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people about equivalent to the enrollment of the nation's four-year colleges and universities,
(A) equivalent to the enrollment of
(B) the equivalent of those enrolled in
(C) equal to those who are enrolled in
(D) as many as the enrollment of
(E) as many as are enrolled in

OG's OE

The phrases equivalent to in A, the equivalent of in B, and equal to in C have too broad a range of meanings to be used precisely here: that is, they can suggest more than merely numerical equality. Also, as quantitative expressions, equivalent and equal often modify nouns referring to uncountable things, as in "an equivalent amount of resistance" or "a volume of water equal to Lake Michigan." To establish numerical comparability between groups with countable members, the phrase as many as is preferable. Choice D, however, uses this phrase improperly in comparing eight million people to enrollment, not to other people. The comparison in E, the best choice, Is logical because people is understood as the subject of are enrolled.

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I agree with A.
I disagree with expln given for B and C. "those" is plural. how can those refer to exhibition which is singular?

I chose E bcos the use of "equal" and "equivalent" is restricted and cannot be used to compare vague number - like "hundreds of people" the number has to be exact.

I was able to remove A B and D pretty quickly from my choices, but had a much harder time deciding between C and E. I ended up choosing C which was the one that sounded the most natural to me. Looking at the breakdown and explanations above, I would agree that E is the better option now. Lesson learned!

E is the winner here.

The logical comparison is to compare numbers with numbers. E does that.

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Kamal if you have not read the rules before posting such questions, then its an utter request to read those. No underlining, bad topic name etc.
Such violations have prevailed from your side. If this continues, then sorry to say, I have to issue a warning to you. I am leaving onto you to correct the format of the question.

Now coming to the question:
We are comparing the number of people on both shows.
Only E does it correctly, and others don't.
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