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The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.
A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
C) extinction; their numbers are now fivefold what they were
D) extinction; now with fivefold the numbers they had
E) extinction; now with numbers five times greater than
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C) extinction; their numbers are now fivefold what they were
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Will go with B here.
THough C makes more sense as the number of not one single word but entire population has increased
But I tend to think that its refers to the one single species of artic bird prey (singular).
Lets wait for the OA
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jaynayak wrote: Will go with B here.
THough C makes more sense as the number of not one single word but entire population has increased
But I tend to think that its refers to the one single species of artic bird prey (singular).
Lets wait for the OA
I thought about that; if that was the case,
A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
would fit better due to "greater" which is appropriate for number comparisons (more is not usually quantifiable).
I agree that we are talking about a single species...
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Re: SC - gyrfalcon extinction (OG) [#permalink]
23 Jun 2006, 10:37
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Agree with haas_mba07
ie GMAT quant: greater is usually used when discussing numbers; "The gyrafalcon....has survived" indicates the pronoun to be single
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Re: SC - gyrfalcon extinction (OG) [#permalink]
23 Jun 2006, 10:51
A. "greater" makes sense to use for quantifiable nouns
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A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
C) their numbers? since when birds are "they"
D) they again
E) "now with numbers five times greater than" isn't a clause... doesn't have a verb and subject
A is the only possible choice... "greater than" is grammatically correct
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OA is A
both reasonings need to be applied here - gyrfalcon is singular and 'greater than' is more appropiate than 'more than'
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Re: SC - gyrfalcon extinction (OG) [#permalink]
31 Jul 2007, 00:53
The last two choice should have commas instead of semicolons.
iced_tea wrote: The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.
A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
correct
B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
C) extinction; their numbers are now fivefold what they were
D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
bad modifier
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