Question

Sameer was both 17th highest and 17th lowest in the spelling contest how many people were in the contest solve it

Answer 1

there were 0 people in the contest

Answer 2

There are 33 people were in the contest.

Explanation:

Given:

Sameer was both 17th highest and 17th lowest in the spelling contest.

• Sameer was 17th from highest , that means, there are 16 people ahead of sameer.
• Sameer was 17th from lowest, that means, there are 16 people behind sameer.
• The total number of people is

$= > 16(ahead) + 16(behind) + 1(sameer \: itself) \\ = > 33 \: peoples$