RPH Editorial Board Solutions for Exercise 1: EXERCISE

Jaya ranks $5^{th}$ in a class of $53.$ What is her rank from the bottom in the class?

Mohan ranks twenty-first in a class of sixty-five students. What will be his (Mohan's) rank if the lowest candidate is assigned rank 1?

If Rahul finds that he is 12th from the right in a line of boys and 4th from the left, how many boys should be added to the line such that there are 28 boys in the line?

In a row of boys, Rajan is tenth from the right and Suraj is tenth from the left. When Rajan and Suraj interchange their positions. Suraj will be twenty-seventh from the left. Which of the following will be Rajan's position from the right?

Uma ranked $8^{\mathrm{th}}$ from the top and ${37}^{\mathrm{th}}$ from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class? 

In a queue, Sadiq is $14$^th from the front and Joseph is $17$^th from the end, while Jane is exactly between Sadiq and Joseph. If Sadiq is ahead of Joseph and there be $48$ persons in the queue, how many persons are there between Sadiq and Jane?

Rohan ranked eleventh from the top and twenty-seventh from the bottom among the students who passed the annual examination in a class. If the number of students who failed in the examination was 12, how many students appeared for the examination?

Some boys are sitting in a row. P is sitting fourteenth from the left and Q is seventh from the right. If there are four boys between P and Q, how many boys are there in the row?