Sixty students were there in a mental ability test. Ten students did not qualify, out of remaining
Yogesh ranked 25th from the last. What was his rank from top?
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Sixty students were there in a mental ability test. Ten students did not qualify, out of remaining
Yogesh ranked 25th from the last. What was his rank from top?
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Then,
Number of passed students = 60 - 10 = 50
The ranking must be done for the passed students. So, we have a total of 50 students who qualified and ranked from top to bottom.
Now,
Yogesh ranked 25th from the last. Then his rank from the top will be
It is because, the position from the top and the bottom will be counted 2 times. Hence, we have to add one more, since we are determining the position from top.
➙ 50 + 1 - 25
➙ 51 - 25
➙ 26th
Hence:-
Yogesh is 26th from the top of the class.
→ Sixty students were there in a mental ability test. Ten students did not qualify, out of remaining Yogesh ranked 25th from the last. What was his rank from top?
→ Total no. of students = 60
→ Students not qualified = 10
→ Yogesh rank from last among remaining students = 25th
→ Yogesh's rank from top among remaining students
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