Banks SSC - Ranking and ordering

1. Banks and SSC
Ranking and Ordering
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2. Problems
In a row of 40 people, position of Ravi from left side of the row
is 23rd. Find the position of Ravi from right side of the row?
Answer: 18
 Position of a person from opposite side = Total number of
persons – Position of same person from the given side + 1
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3. Problems
In a row of persons, position of Ravi from left side of the row
is 25th and position of Ravi from right side of the row is 24th.
How many people are standing in the row?
Answer : 48
 Total number of persons = {sum of positions of same person
from both sides} – 1

4. Problems
In a row of 60 persons, Akhil is 21st from the left side of the row
and Kamran is 20th from the right side of the row. Find the no.
of persons sitting between Akhil and Kamran?
Answer: 19
 No overlapping of people
 Number of persons between A & B = Total number of students
– (Position of A from left + Position of B from right)
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5. Problems
In a row of 60 persons, Akhil is 41st from the left side of the row
and Kamran is 26th from the right side of the row. Find the no.
of persons sitting between Akhil and Kamran?
Answer: 5
 Overlapping of people
 Number of persons between A & B = (Position of A from Left
+ Position of B from right) – Total number of students – 2
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6. Problems
Akhil is 41st from the left side of the row and Kamran is 26th
from the right side of the row. Find the no. of persons sitting
between Akhil and Kamran?
Answer: Cannot be determined
 We do not know the number of overlapping people, incase of
overlapping
 Incase if there is no overlap, we do not know the number of
people between Akhil and Kamran
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7. Problems
If position of A from left side of a row is 18th and position of B
from right side of a row is 17th and 4 persons are sitting in
middle of A & B. Find the minimum number of persons that can
be seated in this row?
Solution: Total no. of persons = 18 + 17 – 4 – 2 = 29
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8. Problems
If position of A from left side of a row is 18th and position of B
from right side of a row is 17th and 4 persons are sitting in
middle of A & B. Find the maximum number of persons that
can be seated in this row?
Solution: Total no. of persons = 18 + 17 + 4 = 39
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9. Problems
In a row of persons, position of A from left side of the row is
27th and position of A from right side of the row is 34th. Find
total no. of persons in the row?
Answer : 60
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10. Problems
In a row of 16 persons, position of A from left side of the row is
12th. Find the position of A from right side of the row?
Answer : 5th
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11. Problems
In a row of persons, position of A from left side of the row is
27th and there are 5 persons after A in the row. Find total no. of
persons in the row?
Answer : 27+5 = 32
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12. Problems
In a row of 18 persons, position of A from left side of the row is
6th. Find the no. of persons after A in the row?
Answer : 18-6=12
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13. Problems
In a row of 54 persons, A is 15th from the left side of the row
and B is 20th from the right side of the row. Find the no. of
persons sitting between A and B?
Answer : 54 – (15+20) = 54 – 35 = 19
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14. Problems
In a row Position of A from left side of the row is 18th and
position of B from right side of the row is 25th. Find the total
no. of students in the row?
Answer: Cannot be determined
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15. Problems
If position of A from left side of a row is 15th and position of B
from right side of a row is 19th and only 1 person is sitting in
middle of A & B. Find the minimum number of persons that can
be seated in this row?
Solution: Total no. of persons = 15 + 19 – 1 – 2 = 31
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16. Problems
If position of A from left side of a row is 15th and position of B
from right side of a row is 19th and only 1 person is sitting in
middle of A & B. Find the maximum number of persons that
can be seated in this row?
Solution: Total no. of persons = 15 + 19 + 1 = 35
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17. Problems
A and B are standing in a row of persons. A is 18th from left
side of the row and B is 24th from right side of the row. If they
interchange their positions A becomes 31st from left. Find
 New position of B from right side
 37
 Number of persons between A & B
 12
 Total number of persons
 54
 Total number of persons = (A’s position from right before
interchanging + A’s position from left before interchanging) – 1
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18. Problems
There are five statues - L, M, N, O and P - each of them having
different height. Statue L is smaller than only statue M. Statue O is
smaller than statue N. Statue O is longer than statue P. The height of
the tallest statue is 20 feet. The height of the second smallest statue is
11 feet.
What Will be the height of statue P?
(a) 13 feet
(b) 15 feet
(c) 09 feet
(d) 12 feet
(e) 14 feet
Answer : 9 Feet
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19. Problems
There are five statues - L, M, N, O and P - each of them having
different height. Statue L is smaller than only statue M. Statue O is
smaller than statue N. Statue O is longer than statue P. The height of
the tallest statue is 20 feet. The height of the second smallest statue is
11 feet.
What Will be the height of the third tallest statue?
(a) 13 feet
(b) 10 feet
(c) 19 feet
(d) 09 feet
(e) 11 feet
Answer : 13 Feet
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