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good point , have the same query !!!
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is there a shorter way to figure which node/company do we start from?

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somya9 and @eeshajain The Shorter way is to recognise the pattern, as per the figure, we know the left side has one non labelled circle between labelled one, and the right sided there is 2 non labelled circle between B and E, also the common ratio is 1/3 since the values decrease from parent to child, the questions asked which Parent company exactly 27 times that of the pioneer company, i.e in other terms the child pioneer will be 1/27 times, the only company fits is B and E and we will save the calculation work by noticing this pattern.
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good point , have the same query !!!

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