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MasterSpinner wrote:
what is the source of this question? GMAT OG says "Compared With" is not idiomatically correct.

" compared with " is idiomatically correct. Compared with is used to show differences and " compared to ", is used to show similarities.

Compare A to B
Compare A with B

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akshata19 wrote:
Can some explain meaning based approach to eliminate options here
Even A conveys the meaning

A . 37 percent of what? Though we know that the sentence means 37% of the Indians. But the sentence should explicitly state by saying 37% of Indians


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Re: In India today, diabetics under the age of forty account for more than [#permalink]
daagh - besides the faulty comparison in other answer choices, is it really correct to say "greater than 37% of ...". Isn
t this a clear case for the use of "more than 37% of ...".

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Re: In India today, diabetics under the age of forty account for more than [#permalink]
(A) In India today, diabetics under the age of forty account for more than 37 percent, compared with a decade ago, when it was less than 15 percent.
-- Incorrect: diabetics compared to decade ago

(B) Of the Indians under the age of forty, today greater than 37 percent of them are diabetics, relative to a decade before, when it was less than 15 percent.
-- Incorrect: "today greater than 37 percent" compared to "decade before"

(C) Today, greater than 37 percent of Indians under the age of forty are diabetics, compared with less than 15 percent a decade ago.
-- Correct: greater than 37 percent compared with less than 15 percent

(D) Today, relative to a decade before, Indians who are diabetics under the age of forty account for greater than 37 percent, whereas it was less than 15 percent.
-- Incorrect: "relative to a decade before" is very far from "less than 15 percent"

(E) Today, diabetics under the age of forty in India account for greater than 37 percent, unlike a decade before, when it was less than 15 percent.
-- Incorrect: greater than 37 percent compared to unlike a decade before
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Re: In India today, diabetics under the age of forty account for more than [#permalink]
is the idiom 'Compared With' used correctly? Also, is this question authentic, moderators Bunuel i'd like to draw your attention.
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Re: In India today, diabetics under the age of forty account for more than [#permalink]
According to Ron's notes :
When we use "compared to/with" to show comparison between statistical data, we need to explicitly show the data on both sides of the comparison.
So C is apt.
As many other users have mentioned, the remaining answer choices are wrong because they portray the wrong comparison -ie between the number of diabetics and a span of years (a decade)
Hope this helps!
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