a new hair-growth drug is being

[summer]

your question has grammatical errors that prevent it from making sense to me. can you please try again?

hi~i am sorry
i think E is wrong is because the "which" may refer to the milligram.
pls clarify me.

thanks!

[tim]

no, "which" must refer to "price" here, or if you prefer, "price per milligram", which is still effectively the "price"..

[gauravtyagigmat]

Why option C is wrong?

A new hair-growing drug is being sold for three times the price, per milligram, than the
drug’s maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient

[RonPurewal]

Why option C is wrong?

A new hair-growing drug is being sold for three times the price, per milligram, than the
drug’s maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient

There's no word to go with "than" (more, less, bigger, greater, etc.)

[gauravtyagigmat]

Why option C is wrong?

A new hair-growing drug is being sold for three times the price, per milligram, than the
drug’s maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient

There's no word to go with "than" (more, less, bigger, greater, etc.)

Is it means we can not use "than" without words such as more ,less,lesser,stronger etc..

[RonPurewal]

Yeah.

The only other use that immediately comes to mind is indicating an exception to something (e.g., "other than" or "rather than"). There could be other uses, of course; maybe I'm just not thinking of them at the moment.

[lindaliu9273]

Hi Ron,

I choose E becasue I know that it should be "three times the + something". "which" refers to price. And I think it should be drug's maker charges at a price. So, there should be an "at".

Can you help me find out what's wrong with my logic?

Thanks a lot!

[RonPurewal]

Nope. You sell things at a price, but you just charge a price.

[momo32]

Dear Ron，

I choose A .
i think the price is the same for two products.
(the price as the drug's maker charges)
please correct me.

thx

[RonPurewal]

* "As" doesn't work, because there's nothing that idiomatically goes with it. E.g., three times as much as...
There's no such thing as "3 times as xxxxx".

i think the price is the same for two products.

The entire message of the sentence is that one product costs three times as much as the other one.

[rustom.hakimiyan]

When I originally read this, I interpreted the meaning as:

"Drug maker charges 3x the price for product x as the price of product y" -- because of this meaning, I opted for option D (of what).


Would my choice be correct if the meaning was infact, what I highlighted above?

Thanks.

[RonPurewal]

When I originally read this, I interpreted the meaning as:

"Drug maker charges 3x the price for product x as the price of product y" -- because of this meaning, I opted for option D (of what).


Would my choice be correct if the meaning was infact, what I highlighted above?

Thanks.

that's not a valid sentence.

if the sentence were constructed like that, it wouldn't contain "price" at all (...charges 3 times as much for x as for y).

[gbyhats]

When I originally read this, I interpreted the meaning as:

"Drug maker charges 3x the price for product x as the price of product y" -- because of this meaning, I opted for option D (of what).


Would my choice be correct if the meaning was infact, what I highlighted above?

Thanks.

that's not a valid sentence.

if the sentence were constructed like that, it wouldn't contain "price" at all (...charges 3 times as much for x as for y).

Hi Dear Manhattan Instructors ;)

Can I ask:

(1) Why "it wouldn't contain "price" at all"?

(2) Is GMAT nowadays still test the use of idiom? (say "idiom", I mean, the correct use of prepositions, like "'date at' but not 'date to be'")

[RonPurewal]

(1) Why "it wouldn't contain "price" at all"?

that meaning is already inherent in "charges..."
you don't "charge" for the price of a product; you "charge" for the product.

you just have to think literally, that's all.

[RonPurewal]

(2) Is GMAT nowadays still test the use of idiom? (say "idiom", I mean, the correct use of prepositions, like "'date at' but not 'date to be'")

only BASIC ones (i.e., the ones you already know). things like "more than" (and not "more as"); "between x and y" (not "between x or y"); etc.

from what we've seen, they've basically purged the more obscure idioms from the test, most likely because they make the test items unfair for international students.