GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of

I was between B and C.

I selected C. Actually I was much influenced by following question and I thought concise elliptical construction will work here as well.
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Further I rejected option B, because I thought there is no clear antecedent for the termthe figure . I thought mortgage
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