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shashikant sonewane

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· 1 Months ago

39th is S8 means science

Question:

DIRECTIONS: Read the following information carefully to answer the given questions:


Fifty books belonging to different subjects, viz. Geography (7), History (8), Literature (13) Psychology (8) and Science (14), are placed on a shelf in this order subject to the condition that no two books of the same subject are placed together so long as books of other subjects are available.All counting is done from the left.

Counting from the right, to which subject does the 39th book belong?
Options:
A) History
B) Psychology
C) Geography
D) Science
E) None of these 
Solution:

The 39th book from the right is the 12th book from the left, which is History.

Let the Geography books be labelled as G1, G2…… G7; History books as H1, H2 …….H8; Literature books as L1, L2 ………. L13; Psychology books as P1, P2, …… P8 and Science books as S1, S2, …… S14.

Then, their order from left to right is as shown below:


kanhaiya jha

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· 1 Months ago

please see solution by clicking report, History is the correct answer....

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