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Chapter 7a: Quantitative Comparisons

Quantitative Comparison questions on the GRE require you to choose one of the two columns to determine which value is greater.   

Here are the four answer choices:

A) the quantity in column A is greater;
B) the quantity in column B is greater;
C) the two quantities are equal;
D) the relationship cannot be determined from the given information

A "quant comp" question may look like this:


Which is greater where x is a positive number

Column A             Column B
     x + 12                   x + 20