1 Q: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century fem

[a user]

Which one is the right answer? A???

 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

 

A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities

B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities

E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

[arti]

Sorry i missed that u have already mentioned A????

 

I too think that A is the right answer.

This question includes parallelism......

 

Two kinds of houses are called for....for different reasons.

Only A is the option which satisfies parallelism.

 

Erin pls. guide us.

 

Arti Gupta

[a user]

Hi, Arti,

 

I favor "A" as the right answer. However the answer tells me "D" is the right one, I think there is a typo in the material.

 

Thank you.

 

Lee

 

Lee Shi

[a user]

Here is another one if you would like to comment on:

 

 

According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey

B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported

C) twice those the 1977 survey reported

D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey

E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey

 

 

Lee Shi

[arti]

Hi Lee

I think its A.

 

Arti Gupta

[a user]

Hi Arti,

 

The anwser is D.

 

I think we need Erin to shed some light here.

 

Erin, what do you think?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

Edited by - user on 2002 May 23 07:51:38

[Erin]

Which one is the right answer? A???

 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities

B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities

E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

 

First, we can eliminate all the answer choices that use with communal eating and social facilities included or any other structure that follows this pattern:

 

preposition + noun + participle

 

This pattern is almost always wrong on the GMAT, and is certainly wrong in this question. This eliminates C) and E).

 

A) is ambiguous--is clustered suburban houses parallel with child-carfacilities or with urban apartment houses? We need to repeat for to be sure that clustered suburban houses is parallel with urban apartment houses.

 

Now we're left with B) and D).

 

Now, the only difference between B and D is the infinitive to include, which GMAT considers unidiomatic.

 

That leaves us with D).

 

HTH!! (Hope that helps!!)

 

Erin

 

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[tmduck]

Originally posted by user

 

Here is another one if you would like to comment on:

 

 

According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey

B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported

C) twice those the 1977 survey reported

D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey

E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey

 

 

Lee Shi

 

You are comparing "20 percent", which requires much: answer D has "twice as much". I would pick D.

 

- JC.

[Californian]

I think the correct answer is "E"

 

 

b/c "those" in D means "20 percent", but in 1977 survey??? The answer is NO.

[FunCrazy]

Californian,

 

New Yorker here! I think "those" is amibigious, it could also refer to "adults." I think the answer is "D"

[Californian]

Hi New Yorker, I understand your point. But I have the solution for this question. So, please trust me. For my reason, I assume it. We may need Erin to help us.

 

Thank you for sharing your comments.

[gaurav_techie]

Originally posted by arti

 

Sorry i missed that u have already mentioned A????

 

I too think that A is the right answer.

This question includes parallelism......

 

Two kinds of houses are called for....for different reasons.

Only A is the option which satisfies parallelism.

 

Erin pls. guide us.

 

Arti Gupta

 

Hi All,

IMHO, I felt that the answer was D. Somehow A does not "sound" right. choice A sounds like housing has never included facilities A and B and that Charlotte is now calling for new housing to include it. I feel that Charlotte is looking for housing that already includes facility A and B. Choice D best portrays this situation.

 

Hope this helped. :shy:

[sranju]

Erin, I wud like to draw yr attention to this question...majority says that D is the answer...I disagree cos we need 'twice as MANY' in the correct choice...please correct me if I am wrong

Thanx

Originally posted by user

 

Here is another one if you would like to comment on:

 

 

According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey

B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported

C) twice those the 1977 survey reported

D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey

E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey

 

 

Lee Shi

[sranju]

Bump!!

[Jedi]

"Twice as much as" is right cause we are referreing to a percentage 20%

 

If the question was : According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 1000 young adults used cocaine in 1979 twice as many as those reported in the 1977 survey

 

Here, Twice as many as is right

 

 

 

 

 

[Sargataur]

dont know why this topic is buried but for this SC

 

According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey

B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported

C) twice those the 1977 survey reported

D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey

E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey

 

i would g against the majority ansd say choice E......D would only be right if it were "that" instead of "those" before the word "reported" in the answer choices above.....

 

can we have the OA.,..

[MikeJung]

bump for some good note by Erin.

[fØrti]

1. imo D

 

...called for urban apartment houses that included X and for clustered suburban houses with Y and Z

 

2. imo E

[scorpion.ks]

Here is another one if you would like to comment on:

 

 

According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

A) doubling those reported in the 1977 survey

B) to double the number the 1977 survey reported

C) twice those the 1977 survey reported

D) twice as much as those reported in the 1977 survey

E) twice the number reported in the 1977 survey

 

 

Lee Shi

IMO E.

 

This is a OG11 question and OA is E.

A,C,D is ambiguosly pointing to adults whereas we have to say that 20 % is double.

B & E....clearly talk abt doubling number.

E is better.

[KramerTM]

I agree that E is correct for the cocaine survey SC.

[aviator83]

First, we can eliminate all the answer choices that use with communal eating and social facilities included or any other structure that follows this pattern:

 

preposition + noun + participle

 

This pattern is almost always wrong on the GMAT, and is certainly wrong in this question. This eliminates C) and E).

 

A) is ambiguous--is clustered suburban houses parallel with child-carfacilities or with urban apartment houses? We need to repeat for to be sure that clustered suburban houses is parallel with urban apartment houses.

 

Now we're left with B) and D).

 

Now, the only difference between B and D is the infinitive to include, which GMAT considers unidiomatic.

 

That leaves us with D).

 

HTH!! (Hope that helps!!)

 

Erin

 

Please post further questions here.

 

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Hi Erin,

 

if the combination "preposition + noun + participle" is almost always wrong the GMAT then how is (d) correct? (d) also uses the same combination -

"with communal eating".

[imnotready]

Hi Erin,

 

if the combination "preposition + noun + participle" is almost always wrong the GMAT then how is (d) correct? (d) also uses the same combination -

"with communal eating".

 

Read carefully,

 

the combination that follows:idea: this pattern:

 

this pattern is preposition + noun + participle

[rashmi1804]

Erin, Why do you say "an infinitive" is almost always wrong on gmat.....I encountered many questions that use infinitives.

Is it a general rule ?? Could you please elaborate on this ??

 

Thankyou,

[bearbull]

Erin, Why do you say "an infinitive" is almost always wrong on gmat.....I encountered many questions that use infinitives.

Is it a general rule ?? Could you please elaborate on this ??

 

Thankyou,

 

An infinitive is not always wrong and that is what Erin : the God says.

 

GOD says: To include (only that infinitive ) is wrong !!!!

 

HTH!!!

[rashmi1804]

pheww!! Thanks bear&bull! :-)

 

I was worried that i was missing some basic rule ;) anyways...its clear that its only here the infinitive is unidiomatic.