Hi Experts,
A naive question irrelevant to the answer. If we are talking about houses, shouldn't we use "fewer than" one percent? Again, I am not contesting OA, but just trying to understand the concept.
Thanks for your time.
Garry
garryrother Wrote:Hi Experts,
A naive question irrelevant to the answer. If we are talking about houses, shouldn't we use "fewer than" one percent? Again, I am not contesting OA, but just trying to understand the concept.
Thanks for your time.
Garry
thanghnvn Wrote:THE RULE: if there are 2 correct choices, we keep the meaning of the original.
thanghnvn Wrote:thank you Ron,
B is not logic because "and lighting..." is not suitable with the first part of sentence.
so there are no 2 correct choices in this sc problem.
however, in some gmatprep question, there are two choices/meanings both of which are correct. So the meaning /choice which is not the original is considered distorted meaning, compared with the meaning of choice A.
Guest Wrote:In the major cities of industrialized countries at the end of the nineteenth century, important public places such as theaters, restaurants, shops, and banks had installed electric lighting, but electricity was in less than one percent of homes, where lighting was still provided mainly by candles or gas.
A. electricity was in less than one percent of homes, where lighting was still
B. electricity was in less than one percent of homes and lighting still
C. there were less than one percent of homes with electricity, where lighting was still being
D. there was less than one percent of homes that had electricity, having lighting that was still
E. less than one percent of homes had electricity, where lighting had still been