Ranking
● Rank of a person from lower or right end =
(Total number of persons in row) – (Rank of
that person from upper or left end) + 1
● Rank of a person from upper or left end = (Total
number of persons in row) – (Rank of that
person from lower or right end) + 1
● Total number of persons in a row or class =
(Rank of a person from upper end or left end) +
(Rank of that person from lower or right end) – 1
1. Some boys are sitting in a row. P is sitting fourteenth from the left and Q is
seventh from the right. If there are four boys between P and Q, how many
boys are there in the row?
a. 19
b. 21
c. 23
d. 25
25
2. In a row of trees, one tree is fifth from either end of
the row. How many trees are there in the row?
a. 8
b. 9
c. 10
d. 11
9
3. Nitin ranks 18th in a class of 49 students. What is
rank from the last?
a. 31
b. 18
c. 32
d. 19
c
4. Rajan is sixth from the left end and vinay is tenth
from the right end in a row of boys. If there are eight
boys between Rajan and Vinay, how many boys are
there in the row?
a. 23
b. 24
c. 25
d. 26
24
5. If Vinay finds that he is twelfth from the right in a line
of boys and fourth from the left, how many boys should
be added to the line such that there are 28 boys in the
line?
a. 12
b. 13
c. 14
d. 20
13
6. Anu and Vijay are ranked seventh and eleventh
respectively from the top in a class of 31 students.
What will be their respective ranks from the bottom in
the class?
a. 20th and 24th
b. 24th and 20th
c. 25th and 21st
d. None of these
c
7. A class of boys stands in a single line. One boy is
nineteenth in order from both the ends. How many
boys are there in the class?
a. 27
b. 37
c. 38
d. 39
b
8. In a row of 40 girls, when Komal was shifted to her
left by 4 places, her number from left end of the row
became 10. What was the number of Swati from the
right end of the row if Swati was three places to the
right of Komal’s original position?
a. 22 b. 23 c. 25 d. 26 [Link] of
these
e
9. N ranks fifth in a class. S is eighth from the last. If T
is sixth after N and just in the middle of N and S, then
how many students are there in the class?
a. 23 b. 24 c.25 d. 26 e. None of
these
b
10. In a row of girls, Nithya and Suganya occupy the
ninth place from the right end and tenth place from the
left end, respectively. If they interchange their places,
then Nithya and Suganya occupy seventeenth place
from the right and eighteenth place from the left
respectively. How many girls are there in the row?
a. 22 b. 24 c. 26 d. 28
11. Among P, Q, R and S, Q is heavier than P and R.
R is not as heavy as P. S is heavier than Q, who is
heaviest ?
A) Q B) P C) S D) R E) None of these
C
12. How many 6’s are there in the following number sequence
which are immediately preceded by 8 and immediately followed
by 7
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A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four E) None of
these