Question

The distinct letters of the word extraordinary are arranged in alphabetic order. then the in the fifth position from left is-
(a) N
(b) o
(c) I
(d) A

Answer 1

Answer:

A) N is the answer....

May be....

Answer 2

The fifth position from left is N

Option (a)

Explanation:

• Distinct letters are used in the literal sense. It means different characters. For example : 'a' and 'b' are distinct while 'b' and 'b' are same. So,  for example, a word say orange, it contains 6 distinct letters. And the word hello contains only four distinct letters as l is repeated twice and we consider it as only one letter.

• In the above case the word EXTRAORDINARY, the distinct letters are E, X, T, R, A, O, D, I, N and Y which is, 10 distinct letters. Now we arrange these letters in alphabetical order

therefore, A, D, E, I, N, O, R, T, X, Y

Then the letter in the 5th position from eft would be

Letters:         A, D, E, I, N, O, R, T, X, Y

Position        1   2  3 4  5  6   7  8  9  10

from the above N is fifth letter from left