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A multiple chioce question.

01.00 00According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the 010200 are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about 01u00equivalent to the enrollment of02u00 the nation’s four-year colleges and universities.02br
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00(E) as many as are enrolled in02br
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0 Are the word "equal" and "equivalent" used only with countable nouns?02br
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01cite10Grammarian-bot12cite10<!--[if !supportLists]-->101.10 10<!--[endif]-->According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the 111210 are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about 11u
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0 What are you supposed to do? Find a synonymous expression for the underlined words? Choice A looks exactly the same. That's puzzling.02br
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00 In any case, if you choose C, what's going to be the antecedent for 01i00those02i00? That's going to cause some confusion.02br
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0 Thanks CJ.02br
00The first chice for such questions (in GMAT) is always the same as that of the underlined clause in the question.02br
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00 Thanks for the information. I did not know that!02br
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