Race Placement Explained
This question involves understanding what a specific rank means in the context of a race.
The question states there are 40 runners in total, and Anu is placed 15th.
Being placed 15th means that Anu finished the race after 14 other runners had already finished, and she is the 15th person to cross the finish line.
The runners who are ahead of Anu are those who finished before her. These would be the runners ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ..., all the way up to 14th.
Calculating Runners Ahead
To find the number of runners ahead of Anu, we simply subtract 1 from her rank.
The formula is:
Number of runners ahead = Anu's Rank - 1
Plugging in Anu's rank:
Number of runners ahead = $15 - 1$
Number of runners ahead = $14$
Therefore, there are 14 runners ahead of Anu in the race.
The total number of runners (40) is extra information and not needed to determine how many are ahead of Anu based on her specific rank.
Important Questions from Ordering and Ranking
A medical representative plans to visit each of six hospitals — A, B, C, D, E and F — exactly once during the course of one day. He is setting up his schedule for the day according to the following conditions:
i. He must visit A before B and E.
ii. He must visit B before D.
iii. The third hospital he visits must be C.
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Five men P, Q, R, S and T are reading a newspaper. The one who reads it first, gives it to T. The one who reads it last, had taken it from R. Q is not the first or last one to read it. There were two readers between P and R. Who is the third one to have read the newspaper?
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Five students took part in a cycling competition. Robert finished before Monish but behind Gunjan. Anil finished before Sunil but behind Monish.
Who won the competition?
