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

Input: ‘the most typical is set for action.’ Step I : typical most the set is action for. Step II : most typical is set the for action. Step III : typical most set is action for the. Step IV : set most typical action is the for. (and so on) ………. Study the pattern and then answer the following question:

‘set for the table is their black’ is the fourth step of a given input. Which of the following will be the input?

  1. their for the is set table black.

  2. their for the set is table black.

  3. their for the is set black table.

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

nbsp;               7          4          1          6           From above illustration, it is clear that in step I word marked with 1 is interchanged with 3, 4 with 5 and 6 with 7, keeping the word marked 2 as it is. In step II, word marked 5 is kept same and 2 is interchanged with 3, 4 with 1 and 6 with 7. Likewise in third step, word marked with 6 is kept same and 2 is interchanged with 3, 5 with 4 and 1 with 7. Now, step IV is again identical to step I and so on.

IVth step is of the order: 5 2 3 7 4 1 6, i.e. ‘set for the table is their black’. Hence, input for this step will be: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 i.e., ‘their for the is set black table’.

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