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GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: In 1791 Robert Carter III, one of the wealthiest plantation

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utkarshthapak wrote:

Hi AjiteshArun, Utkarsh from Jamboree Classes. I have a doubt, Is it correct to use 'the' before 'more than' as used in option A?
Hi Utkarsh, yes it is. Look at it thisway:

The people
The 110 people (just specifying the number)
The (>100) people (maybe we don't know the exact number, or that level of precision is unnecessary)
The (more than hundred) people (putting it in words)
The more than hundred people
Here is a similar sentence from a recent NYT article:
Quote:

Employees like Dolan, who work the phones, start at $14 an hour, about a dollar less than the median wage earned by the more than 2.5 million Americans who work as customer-service representatives.

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