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Old 27-Apr-2008, 07:28
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Default Re: "as good as" or "as well as"

If you must use the 'as...as' construction, then of your examples, you're stuck with
"I'll try to answer your question as satisfactorily as possible" which sounds like something that a person before a Select Committee might say.
A native speaker would be more likely to say,
"I'll try to answer your question as best I can."

It is the questioner who would be more likely to say:
"Please try to answer the question as (adverb) as possible."
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