Multiple choice softskills leadership

Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.

  1. a doubling of the apples that it did

  2. twice as many apples as it did

  3. as much as twice the apples it has

  4. two times as many apples as there were
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B Correct answer
Explanation

When comparing quantities of countable nouns like 'apples', 'twice as many as' is the correct idiomatic expression. 'Double the apples' is less formal, and 'as much as' is used for uncountable quantities. 'Did' correctly provides the past tense comparison to 1910.

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