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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:

If the ‘out call to all those who dreams.’ is the first step of a given input, then which of the following will be the third step?

  1. call our all to dream those who.

  2. our call to all who those dream.

  3. our call all those who dream to.

  4. our call those all dream who to.
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Explanation

Input                :           the       most      typical            is         set       for        action                                     1          2               3                 4          5          6          7 Step I               :           3          2              1                  5          4          7          6 Step II              :           2          3              4                  5          1          6          7           Step III             :           3          2              5                  4          7          6          1 Step IV             :           5          2              3                  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.

Step I: ‘out      call       to         all          those   who          dream’.             3          2          1          5             4                       7                  6 Step III:out       call       all        those     who                 dream               to                         3          2          5          4            7                        6                  1

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