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A girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left hand : She started by calling the thumb 1, the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little finger 5 and then reversed direction calling the ring finger 6, middle finger 7 and so on. She counted upto 1994. She ended counting on which finger ?
A. Thumb
B. Index finger
C. Middle finger
D. Ring finger
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Ans: B.
Clearly, while counting the numbers associated to the thumb will be 1,9,17,25,.........
i.e., numbers of the form (8n + 1 ).
where n=1,2,3...
Since 1994 = 249 × 8 + 2, so 1993 shall correspond to the thumb and 1994 to the index finger.- 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(12) No(4)
- ans D ring finger
1994/5 = remaining 4
so nw again start from thumb so 4rh is ring finger - 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(7)
- Middle finger difference is always 4 ..
so 1994/4 gives remainder 0... ans is middle finger - 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(1)
- Ans: index finger
explanation: 1994/10 gives 4 remainder, then now count from small finger bcoz after 1-5 from thumb to small then 6-10 from small to thumb therefore we need to count from small finger.. Then answr index finger - 9 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(0)
- Yeah it's index finger (b)
- 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(1)
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