It has been estimated that the annual cost of water and

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It has been estimated that  the annual cost of water and utilities to greater than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita per year.

A. the annual cost of water and utilities to greater than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita per year
B. the annual cost of water and utilities for more than 50 percent of the Santa Rosa homeowners is at least 148 dollars per capita per year
C. the annual cost of water and utilities to more than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita
D. the cost of water and utilities for greater than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita per year
E. at least 148 dollars per capita per year is the cost annually of water and utilities for more than 50 percent of Santa Rosa homeowners

ShalabhAr · Accepted Answer

One does not need idiom knowledge in this one. If you are stuck between B and C note B uses annual cost.....per year. Redundant.

thevenus · Answer

(C) wins,
C. the annual cost of water and utilities to more than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita

Following has to be taken care:-
 considered to
greater than 50 percent
the annual cost X dollar/capita

souvik101990 · Answer

yeah its more of a redundancy thing 
I was confused between greater and more.
But greater homeowners is weird
the 50% made things a little bit confusing though

ShalabhAr · Answer

Brotip- greater than is generally used to compare a number (implied number) with another. X is greater than y. Quant gives you some verbal answers too ;-)

GODSPEED · Answer

A: "greater" wrong usage; "annual" & "per year" -> redundant 
B: Redundancy 
 C: Is the choice - CORRECT 
D: "greater" doesn't fit in
E: Awkward structure

rishabchoraria · Answer

Cost.. To more than.. Is this construction right? Can someone please elaborate on this?

neeraj609 · Answer

daagh

Can someone please explain by greater than is wrong and more than is correct?

As per my understanding, Greater/Fewer than is used for all countable things and More/Less than is used for non-countable things. Here home owners are clearly countable. Please help me understand this.

daagh · Answer

Let’s try and see whether more than or greater than makes better sense.

the annual cost of water and utilities to more than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita
the annual cost of water and utilities to greater than 50 percent of the homeowners in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita
Clearly more than is better because homeowners is countable. Greater than 50% of homeowners is very weird.

mvictor · Answer

I got to C just because the other options maintain the same redundancy...annual/per year.

kkrrsshh · Answer

Are these two grammatically correct: 'cost for homeowners' and 'cost to homeowners' ?

sunny91 · Answer

daagh ,  souvik101990 , Please help me on this question.

Generally, to compare statistical data, we use greater rather than more: 
a GREATER number of people 
a GREATER percentage of citizens 
a GREATER probability of success 
* if we are dealing with a word that literally describes a numerical quantity (number, rate, height, percentage,distance,length, volume, population, etc.), then we use “greater”.

Below is an official question- 
A long-term study of some 1,000 physicians indicates that the more coffee these doctors drank, the greater was their likelihood of having coronary disease.

shekhu · Answer

the annual  cost of  water and utilities  to  more than 50 percent of the  homeowners  in Santa Rosa is at least 148 dollars per capita

I thought cost of ... for .. <noun> would be better.

I ruled out C for this construction itself. Can someone elaborate on this?

subghh · Answer

It has to be (c). All of the options except (c) has "annual" and "per year" and these mean same.

pzgupta · Answer

If we keep the redundancy problem in B aside, what is correct  cost of...for  or  cost of...to .

Oppenheimer1945 · Answer

Why is C correct and D incorrect?

C has redudancy "annual + cost per year"
C uses "cost to" -correct idiom
D uses "cost for" - wrong idiom

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