Anil is fifteenth from the right end of a row of 39 boys and Waseem is nineteenth from the left end in the same row. How many boys are there between them in the row?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → 05
Counting from both ends counts the person himself twice, so position from the left + position from the right = total + 1. Once both boys are placed from the same end, the boys between them are the gap between their positions, less one.
Anil from the left \(=39+1-15=25\)th
Waseem from the left \(=19\)th
Boys between them \(=25-19-1=5\)
