Ranking and Order Online Quiz

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Q 1 - In a class total number of students is 42. From below, Meera’s rank is 16. What is her rank from the top?

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Answer : A

Explanation

Total number of students present ahead of Meera is = 42 - 16 = 26

Hence; the rank of Meera is 27 from top.

Q 2 - While counting, Ajay found that his rank from the left hand side and right hand side are 4^th and 12^th respectively. Calculate the minimum number of boys that should be added to the line to make it 28.

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Answer : A

Explanation

Let’s 1^st calculate the total number of boys.

It will be = (4 + 12) - 1 = 15

Now extra boys needed = 28 - 15 = 13

Q 3 - In a word, the position of a particular letter L is 5^th from the left side and 6^th from the right hand side. How many letters must be eliminated to make it a 7 letter words.

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Answer : B

Explanation

Total length of the word on the basis of the rank of L from both the side is = 5 + 6 - 1 = 10

Now to make it a 7 letter word, we need to eliminate 3 words from it.

Q 4 - In a nursery, I saw a group of small rose trees arranged in a row. However, one rose tree caught my attention very much. I started counting its rank from the left hand side and found out to be 12. When I started counting from right hand side, it was again 12!! What is the total number of rose trees that were arranged in that row?

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Answer : A

Explanation

As the rank of the tree is same from either side, the total number of trees will be

12 + 12 - 1

= 23

Q 5 - Rank of Snigdha is 15^th from the top in a list of 55 girls. What would be her new rank from the bottom, if three new girls are removed from the back of the list?

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Answer : B

Explanation

Rank of Snigdha before removal of three girls from bottom = (5515) + 1 = 41

Now removal of 3 girls from the bottom of the list will reduce the rank of Snigdha further less by 3 from bottom. So, the new rank will be = 41 - 3 = 38

Q 6 - In a queue, the rank of Sojoy from front is 10^th while from behind the rank of Deepak is 25^th. Meera is present in the middle of the two. It is given that the total number of persons is 50. Then determine the rank of Ram from the front.

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Answer : B

Explanation

Let’s find the total number of persons present between Sojoy and Deepak = 50 - (10 + 25) = 15

Ram lies in between these 15 persons. That means we can conclude that from Sojoy’s position, he will be at 8^th position and from front end his rank will be 18^th.

Q 7 - Total number of students in a class is 60 out of which 40 students have been selected for debate competition. The number of girls is half of those boys who qualified for debate competition. The rank of Hari from the top is 17^th and there are 9 girls ahead of him in that rank. Calculate the number of boys present after Hari.

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Answer : A

Explanation

As the number of girls is half of boys, so out of 60 number of students the only possible combination of boys and girls can be in the number of 40 and 20 respectively.

Now 9 girls are present ahead of Hari means that the total number of boys till 17^th rank is 8(including Hari). So, the rest number of boys present after Hari are;

40 - 8 = 32

Q 8 - In a queue, from the front side, the rank of Amarendra is 10^th and Manas is ranked as 25^th from behind. Tanmaya is present in the middle of the two persons. If the total number of persons in the queue is 50, then calculate the rank of Tanmaya from the front.

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Answer : C

Explanation

Rank of Manas is 25^th from behind. Then from the front side Manas’s rank will be = (50 - 25) + 1 = 26

Between 10^th rank and 26^th rank, there are 15 students and the middle position will be 8^th one. Now, the rank of Tanmaya from the front side will be

= Rank of Amarendra from front side + 8

= 10 + 8

= 18

Q 9 - Rank of Karthik is 18^th from the bottom in a group of 25 students. Find his rank from below if four new students will be added to the bottom of the list.

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Answer : C

Explanation

Simply it will add four more ranks to the current position of Karthik

= 18 + 4 = 22

Q 10 - Among the list of 64 shortlisted applicants, rank of Suresh is 54 from top and rank of Radhika is 34 from bottom. How many candidates are present in between Suresh and Radhika?

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Answer : B

Explanation

Rank of radhika from top = (64 - 34) + 1 = 31

Now number of candidates lying in between Radhika and Suresh are

= (54 - 31) - 1

= 22

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