In a line of boys facing north, atul is 19th from the right end and subham is 20th from the left end. If there are six boys between them and atul is in the left of subham, what is the total number of boys on the line?
Answers
The answer is 31.
Explanation:
All the boys are standing in the same straight line facing North with Atul to the left of Subham.
It is given that Subham is the 20th boy from the left and Atul is the 19th boy from the right with six boys in between them. It is also stated that Atul is to the left of Subham. So, the arrangement must be as follows.
Subham
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Atul
This is the same as
Atul Subham
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
where Subham is the 20th boy from the left and Atul is the 13th boy from the left.
This means that the total number of boys is 20 (end point where Subham is) plus 11 (the other boys to the end of the line). Thus, the total number of boys is 20 + 11 = 31.