In this chapter individuals are arranged in a certain Order in a row.

We are provided
with some data about this arrangement and then on the basis of the given data we
have to solve the questions, which could be of several types.

TYPE OF QUESTION
1- Finding rank of a Person
2- Finding total no of people
3- Finding mid no
4- Finding rank of person sitting in middle of two person
5- Rank interchange

57th

Q.1. In a class of 90 students Basant rank is 67th from the top and Sumit rank is
from the bottom. How many students are sitting in between Basant and Sumit?

(1) 34
(2) 32
(3) 10
(4) 8
(5) None of these

Answer: (2) 32

THIS IS OVERLAP CONDITION SO,

IN BETWEEN = (67 + 57) 90 = 34
67

34 2 = 32

Sumit
90
Amit

57

Q.2. In a class Amit rank is 9th from the left and Sumit rank is 7th from the right.
If 6 students are sitting in between them. What could be the minimum number of
students in the class?
(1) 9
(2) 7
(3) 14
(4) 22
(5) None of these

Answer: (4) 22

Minimum Number of students in the class = 9 + 6 + 7 = 22

Q.3. In a class Amit rank is 9th from the left and Sumit rank is 8th from the right.
If Neha sits exactly in between them. What could be the minimum number of
students in the class?
(1) 9
(2) 10
(3) 14
(4) 22
(5) None of these

Answer: (2) 10

8th Sumit

9th Amit
Minimum number of students in the class = 10

Q.4. In a class of 120 students Basant rank is 44th from the top and Sumit rank is
46th from the bottom.
How many students are sitting in between Basant and Sumit?
(1) 28

(2) 30

(3) 32

(4) 2

(5) None of these

Answer: (2) 30
44
Basant
120
Sumit

THIS IS NOT OVERLAP CONDITION SO,

IN BETWEEN =120 (44 + 46) = 30
46

Q.4. Rajesh is 7th to the left of Rohit in a row of boys facing North. Vijay, who is
from the left end of the row, 7th to the right of Rohit. If Bhawesh, who is 3rd to
the right of Rajesh, is 20th from the right end of the row, How many boys are there in
the row?
20th

(1) 30
(2) CND
(3) 28
(4)25
(5) None of these

Answer: (3) 28

20th
Rohit

Rajesh

Vijay

Bhawesh
20th

TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS = 20 + 8 = 28

Q.5. Three person Amit, Prakash and Vikash are standing in a queue. There are
five persons between Amit and Prakash and eight persons between Prakash and
Vikas. If there are three persons ahead of vikash and 21 behind Amit, what could be
the minimum number of student in the class?
(1) 26

(2) 27

(3) 29

(4) 28

(5) None of these

Answer: (4) 28

Amit

Vikash

Prakash

21th

Q.6. In a row of 40 boys, Santosh was shifted 10 th place to the right of Prakash
and Dhirendra was shifted 10th place to the left of lalbabu. If lalbabu was 26th from the
left and there were three boys between Dhirendra and Santosh after shifting, what
was the position of Prakash in the row?
(2) 39th from the right end

(1) Data Inadequate

(4) 10th from the right end

(5) None of these

Answer (1) Data Inadequate

Rohit
Prakash

Vijay

Santosh
26th
Rohit
Prakash

Vijay

Santosh

26th

(3) 10th from the left end

Q.7. In a class Amit rank is 30th from the left and Sumit rank is 25th from the
right. If 12 sits in between them. What could be the minimum number of students in
the class?
(1) 67

(2) 42

(3) 30

(4) CND

(5) None of these

Answer: (3) 30

Vikash

25th

Amit
30th

If we take total number of students in the class is 30,

In the minimum case we can arrange all situation in this diagram

Q.8-11 In a class Radhas rank is 11th from the top and Amits rank is 21st from
the top among the students. If Radhas rank is 6th from the top among the girls and
sumits rank is 11th from the top among the boys. If radha is 64th from the bottom
among the students and amits rank is 28th from the bottom among the boys.
Q.8. What is the strength of a class?
(1) 64

(2) 54

(3) 74

(4) CND

(5) None of these

Q.9. How many girls are sitting in between Amit and Radha.?
(1) 5

(2) 4

(3) 6

(4) 3

(5) None of these

(4) 11

(5) None of these

Q.10. How many boys above radha?

(1) 10

(2) 6

(3) 5

Q.11. How many girls are sitting below radha?

(1) 26

(2) 27

(3) 28

(4) 32

(5) 30

Answer:

Q.8. (3) 74
Q.9. (2) 4
Q.10. (3) 5
Q.11. (5) 30

5 Boys
5 Girls
64th

Among the students

11th

Radha

5 Boys
4 Girls
Amit

Among the students

28 Boys
21

th

Among the Boys

Girls =26

Q.12. Fifteen students are standing in horizontal row from left to right. If all the
odd numbered students in the row are shifted to successive odd- numbered position,
what will be the position of Sonam who has 7th from the left end in the row initially?
(1) 8th from the left end

(2) 7th from the right end

(3) 8th from the right end

(4) 7th from the left end

(5) None of these

Answer: (2) 7th from the right end

Q.13. In a queue of girls, Deepa is eighth from the right and Nada is twelfth from
the left. When Deepa and Nada interchange position, Nada becomes twenty first from
the left. Which of the following will be Deepas position from the right?
(1) 21st

(2) 5th

(4) 17th

(3) CND

Answer: (4) 17th

Nada

12th
Deepa?

Deepa

8th
Nada
21th

Deepas Rank from the Right = 8 + 8 +1 = 17

(5) None of these

Q.14. In a class Amits rank is 26th from the left and sumits rank is 29th from the
right. If three students are sitting in between Amit and Sumit. What is the strength of
a class?
(1) 58

(2) 51

(3) 52

(4) CND

(5) None of these

Answer: (4) CND

Sumit 29th

Amit 26th

Sumit 29th

Amit 26th

Q.15. In an examination, Raj got more marks than mukesh not as many as Priya.
Priya got more marks than Gaurav and Kavita. Gaurav got less marks than mukesh
his marks are not the lowest in the group. Who is second in the descending order of
marks?
(1) Priya

(2) Kavita

(3) Raj

(4) CND

(5) None of these

Answer: (3) Raj

Priya > Raj > Mukesh > Gaurav > Kavita

Q.16. Some students were standing in row facing north. Only Seema was
between Sumit and Ritu. Basant was exactly midway in the row. The number of
students to the left of Basant was equal to the cube of Kalkas rank from the left end
and the number of student of the right of Basant was equal to square of Ashishs
rank from the left end of the row. The number of students was less than 1000. How
man y students were there between kalika and Basant?
(1) 61
(2) 60
(3) 62
(4) Data Inadequate
(5) None of these

Answer: (2) 60
Let, Kalikas rank from the left end = x
Ashish rank from the right end = y
No of students to the left of Basant = x3
No of students to the right of Basant = y2
Basant sits exactly midway in the row, so x 3 = y2
Possible values of (x, y) = (1, 1), (4, 8) because number of total
students less than 1000
Kalika rank from the left end = 4th
Ashish rank from the left end = 8th
Total number of students between Kalika and Basant = (60 4) = 60.

64th
8th
th

Left End

Kalika

Ashish

Basant

Right End

Q.17. In a class among the passed students Babita is 22nd from the top and Sonu,
who is 5th ranks below Babita is 34th from the bottom. All the students from the class
appeared for an examination. If the ratio of the students who passed in the
examination to those who failed is 4: 1 for the class, how many students were there
in the class?
(1) Data Inadequate
(2) 70
(3) 75
(4) 60
(5) None of these

Answer: (3) 75

22th

Babitas rank from the top = 22nd

Sonus rank from the top = (22+5) = 27
Sonus rank from the bottom = 34th
So, Total students who passed the examination = (27 + 34)
1 = 60,

27
Babita

5
Sonu

60

Let the number of students passed = 4x and number of

students failed = x;
X = 60/4 = 15
So, total number of students in the class = 60 + 15 = 75.

34th

Bottom

Q.18. In a row of girls, Priyanka and Deepa occupy the ninth place from the right
end and tenth place from the left end respectively. If they interchange their places,
Priyanka and Deepa occupy Seventeenth place from the right and eighteenth place
from the left respectively. How many girls are there in the row?
(1) 27
(2) 26
(3) 25
(4) 28
(5) Data Inadequate

Answer: (2) 26

18th
17th

10th

D/P

Before Interchanging:
Priyankas rank from the right end = 9th
Deepas rank from the left end = 10th
After Interchanging:
Priyankas rank from the right = 17th
Deepas rank from the left = 18th
Total number of girls in the row = (10 + 17) 1= 26

D/P

9th

Q.19. Children are in pursuit of a dog whose leash has broken Krishnarajan is
directly behind the dog. Rangarajan behind Krishnarajan. Natrjan is behind
Rangarajan, Premrajan is ahead of the dog walking down the street in the opposite
direction. As the children and dog pass, premrajan turns around and joins the pursuit.
He runs in behind Rangarajan. Krishnarajan runs faster and is alongside the dog on
the left. Rangarajan runs faster and is alongside the dog on the right. Which child is
directly behind the dog.
(1) Krishnarajan
(2) Rangarajan
(3) Natrajan
(4) Prremarajan
(5) None of these

Answer: (5) None of these

First Time sequence is

Nataraja
n

Rangarajan

Krishnarajan
Dog

Premrajan

AGAIN THE SEQUENCE IS

Natrajan
OR
Premrajan

Krishnarajan

Dog
Rangarajan.

Q.20. In a row of 40 girls, when komal was shifted to her left by 4 place her number
from the left end of the row become 10. What was the number of swati from the right
end of the row, If swati was three place s to the right of komals original position?
(1) 22
(2) 24
(3) 27
(4) 26
(5) None of these

Answer: (2) 24
On shifting 4 places to the left Komal is 10th from the left end of the row. Thus,
Komals original position was 14th from left end.
Swati is 3 places to right of Komals original position.
Clearly, Swati is 17th from the left end
Number of girls to the right of Swati = (40 17) = 23
Thus, Swati is 23 + 1 = 24th from the right end of the row.

Q.21.Amar is 16th from the left end in a row of boys and Vishal is 18th from the
right end. Ganesh is 11th from Amar towards the right and 3rd from Vishal towards the
right end. How many boys are there in the row?
(1) 45
(2) 26
(3) 39
(4) 41
(5) None of these

Answer: (4) 41
Vishal is 18th from the right end and Ganesh is 3rd to the right of Vishal. So, Ganesh
is 15th from the right end.
Clearly, there are 15 boys to the left of Amar; 10 boys between Amar and Ganesh and
14 boys to the right of Ganesh.
Hence, Total number of boys in the row = (15 + 1 +10 +1 +14) = 41

Q.22. In a row at a bus stop, A is 9th from the right and B is 7th from the left. They
both interchange their positions. If there are 20 people in the row, what will be the
new positions of B from the left?
(1) 11th
(2) 12th
(3) 13th
(4) 10th
(5) None of these

Answer: (1) 11th

Number of people in the row = position of person from the left + position of person
from the left 1
A is 9th from the right. Also there are 20 people in the row.
So, 20 = position of left the left + 9 -1
Position of A form the left = 12th
When A and B interchange positions, As old position becomes Bs new position.

Q.23. In a class of 35 children, Ameyas rank is sixth from the top. Annie is seven
ranks below Ameya. What is Annies rank from the bottom?
(1) 22
(2) 20
(3) 19
(4) 23
(5) CND

Answer: (1) 22

6th Ameyas

Annies

Q.24-27. Study the following information carefully and answer the question given
below:
Five geeks (enthusiasts) entered a comic book character costumer contest held
during the comic con festival. The contestants dressed up and were given two awards
one for being best in a particular category (i.e. strongest, smartest, most efficient
scariest and powerful) and and one for being ranked ( I e, 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th , and 5th ).
Determine who wore what costume and what two awards they received.
(1) The winner of the most efficient characters costume was ranked just above
Sachas characters costume (which wasnt the superman).
(2) The winner of the strongest category (which wasnt the Wonder woman) was not
warn by Billy.
(3) The jokers costume was ranked just above Sachas costume (Which was not the
strongest costume winner).

(4) The Wonder women costume ranked just above the scariest costume and just
below Vladimirs costume.
(5) The Batman Costume was placed just higher than the winner of the strongest
costume and just lower than Catherines costume.
(6) The lex Luthor costume ranked just above Jelenas (Which was not the Superman)
and just below the smartest.
Q.24. Who among the following ranked fifth?
(1) Billy
(2) Jelena
(3) Vladimir
(4) CND
(5) None of these
Q.25. Who among the following got the award of the scariest costume?
(1) Billy
(2) Catharine
(3) Sacha
(4) Valdimir
(5) None of these
Q.26 Which of following is the costume of sacha?
(1) Joker
(2) Batman
(3) Lex Luthor
(4) Wonder women

5th

Q.27 Which of the following shows the correct order of ranks 1st, 2nd , 3rd , 4th and
respectively?

(1) Billy, Jelena, Vladimir, Sacha, Catherine

(2) Vladimir, Sacha, Catherine, Billy, Jelena
(3) Catherine, Sacha, Vladimir, Jelena, Billy
(4) Vladimir, Billy, Catherine, Sacha, Jelena

Answer: Q.24. (1)

Q.25. (1)
Q.26. (2)
Q.27. (3)
Costume

Person

Category Best

Joker
Batman
Lex luthor
Wonder women
Superman

Catherine
Sacha
Vladimir
Jelena
Billy

Most efficient
Smartest
Strongest
Powerful
Scariest

Q.28. There are 30 plants of Chiku, Guava, Sitafal and Mango in a row. There is
one pair of mango plants after Chiku and Guava and Mango plants are followed by
one Chiku and one Sitafal plant and so on. If the row begins with a plant of Chiku,
then which of the following will be the last in the row?
(1) Guava
(2) Mango
(3) Chiku
(4) Sitafal
(5) None of these

Answer: (4) Sitafal