<p>Well the answer is D… but if u look at the question carefully it says – honorary degrees to ““MEN””… so i supose honorary degrees to men = honorary degree to man… . since the later
portion suggests that the degree now is being given to a person… How could D be correct?</p>
<p>I think you need to look at this way:
What ? Honorary Degrees [Plural] | To whom? “Men” [General]
What ? Honorary Degrees [Plural] | To whom? “Man” [Specific]</p>
<p>I do understand that your interpretation makes sense; some implications can be made that way. But what you need to realize is, all third-person pronouns need to have proper and specific antecedents. “it” in this case, has no <em>proper and singular</em> antecedent [explicitly mentioned - this is important, as a rule] . Therefore the answer is “D”.</p>
<p>The reason for the explicit mention required is that an implied reference is usually ambiguous. Although one may make a sense out of it in some cases, in many cases one is left with ambiguity.</p>
<p>@ccprofile
Thanks for correcting me, and for the reference. ;)</p>
<p>@sarbaraj: You’re welcome! @Hermin: sarbaraj has already fully answered your question. But, another way of looking at it would be to see that the “it” was supposed to refer to the honorary degrees mentioned in the sentence so a singular pronoun couldn’t possibly be used for a plural noun. I think your question was how could honorary degrees be awarded to a single person i.e. one single person should only receive 1 award and thus the ‘it’ pronoun should be correct as it indicates that the person received only 1 award. However, while your point is valid you need to realize that in order to indicate that the person received only one award you cannot simply write ‘it’ to refer to a noun, which has been mentioned in the plural form. So, the correct sentence could easily have read “Princeton university officials first broke with a tradition of awarding honorary degrees only to men when they awarded one of the awards to author Willa Cather” or simply “Princeton university officials first broke with a tradition of awarding honorary degress only to men when they awarded an honorary degree to author Willa Cather.”</p>
<p>@hermin: Next time when you post a question, please post the answer along with the question. Because when you don’t, it can sometimes give the wrong impression that you’re only just trying to test the SAT skills of other readers rather than learn where and what mistake you made. I know it wasn’t your intention to do so this time but it’s always best to avoid being misunderstood. :)</p>
<p>Hi all,
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<p>A list of 100 integers has the property that the average (arithmetic mean), a, of the integers is greater than the median, m, of the integers. Which of the following must be true?</p>
<p>I. More of these integers are greater than a than are less than a.
II. More of these integers are greater than m than are less than m.
III. More of these integers are less than m than are greater than m.</p>
<p>A. None
B. I only
C. II only
D. I and II
E. I and III</p>
<p>I too think the answer should be A.
For medians, no. of integers greater than m = no. of integers less than m
Once we know this we can easily see that the no. of integers greater than a should be less than no. of integers less than a. You can also see this by drawing a no. line where m denotes the median which divides the line equally in two halves. The numbers are arranged in an ascending order and thus a is placed after m. We can see from the line that the no. of integers after a is much less than the no. of integers less than a.
|_____<strong><em>m</em></strong>a____|</p>
