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[piyusht]

1. 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


its between D& E... which one is correct ?

[comp_bos]

It should be E.
D: "as much as" is wrong. It should read "as many as" young adults are count noun.

[800needed]

I initially answered D, but reading yoru explination Comp-Boss, I have to go with e as well then. I actually didn't even read it, that is such a bad habbit I have