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In this type of questions, a message comprising of randomised letters/words or numbers or a combination of both is given as the input followed by steps of rearrangement to give sequential outputs. The candidate is required to trace out the pattern in the given rearrangement and then determine the desired output step, according to as is asked in the questions.

1)

A word arrrangement machine when given an input line of words rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of the input and the steps of rearrangement.

Input : but going for crept te Trght sir

Step I : crept but going for the light sir

Step II : crept going light but for te sir

Step III: crept going light but for sir te

Step III is the last step for this input.

As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in the given questions the appropriate step for the given input

Input : more fight cats cough sough acts idea

Which of the following steps would be the last step for this input ?

 


A) III

B) IV

C) V

D) VI

E) VII

Answer:

Option D

Explanation:

Clearly, in the given arrangement, first all the words with the highest number of letters are arranged in the alphabetical order, followed by the words with the second-highest number of letters and so on. However the position of only one word is altered at each step. The process continues till the whole set of words gets arranged in the same manner.

Input :more fight cats cough sough acts idea.

Step l : cough more frght cats sough acts idea

Step II : cough fight more cats sough acts idea

Step III : cough fight sough more cats acts idea.

Step IV : cough fight sough acts more cats idea

Step V : cough fight sough acts cats more idea

Step VI : cough fight sough acts cats idea more

And Step VI is the last step for the given input.