A young girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left

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A young girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left hand. She started calling the thumb 1, the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little finger 5, then reversed direction, calling the ring finger 6, middle finger 7, index finger 8, thumb 9 and then back to the index finger for 10, middle finger for 11 and so on. She counted up 1994. She ended on her

A. thumb
B. the index finger
C. the middle finger
D. the ring finger
E. the little finger

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A. thumb
B. the index finger
C. the middle finger
D. the ring finger
E. the little finger

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zhanbo · Answer

My answer is  (B)  - Index finger.

One complete round is 8. Starting from 9, 17, etc. the same pattern repeats.

So 1994 / 8 = 249 with 2 as remainder. 2 means index finger.

BTW: To be grammatically correct, delete "The" in the options b, c, d, and e.

rajatchopra1994 · Answer

Explanation: The thumb series is 1,9,17,25,33... Therefore 8n+1=1994 8n=1993 remainder=1 Therefore thumb for 1993 and the next one is index. The answer is the index finger. IMO-B

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Ansh777 · Answer

Please follow the attachment for better understanding:

Initial of fingers are written as T, I, M, R, L from left to write and 
the counting as it would appear.
Now first row has 5 numbers from 1 to 5 
so remaining = 1994-5=  1989 
Now we see that each row has 4 numbers and 
Let say row beginning from 6 be 1st row and call it odd
row beginning from 10 be 2nd row and call it even and so on 
Now 1989/4 gives Quotient : 497 which is odd row and will end at Thumb Finger and remainder: 1 which is at Index Finger

Answer: B

Archit3110 · Answer

with the given sequence we know that even no will only be Index and ring finger
and for the given sequence the the thumb falls as 8n+1 ; at n=249 ; 1993 it will be thumb and 1994 it will be index finger
IMO B

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