Six friends — Raj, Kabir, Meera, Alok, Neha, and Zara — are participating in a fun fair where each is given 15 tokens to play games. Zara borrows 3 tokens from Raj,then gives away 5 tokens to Meera, Meera gives 4 tokens to Kabir, Kabir passes 7 tokens to Alok, and finally, Alok gives 3 tokens to Neha.

After all these exchanges, the combined number of tokens with Alok and Neha is equal to the total number of tokens with which of the following groups?
(a) Raj, Kabir, and Meera
(b) Kabir, Meera, and Zara
(c) Raj, Kabir, and Zara
(d) Raj, Meera, and Zara

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Six friends &mdash; Raj, Kabir, Meera, Alok, Neha, and Zara &mdash; are participating in a fun fair where each is given 15 tokens to play games. Zara borrows 3 tokens from Raj,then gives away 5 tokens to Meera, Meera gives 4 tokens to Kabir, Kabir passes 7 tokens to Alok, and finally, Alok gives 3 tokens to Neha.

After all these exchanges, the combined number of tokens with Alok and Neha is equal to the total number of tokens with which of the following groups?
(a) Raj, Kabir, and Meera
(b) Kabir, Meera, and Zara
(c) Raj, Kabir, and Zara
(d) Raj, Meera, and Zara

ONLiNE UPSC · Accepted Answer

All start with 15 tokens.
Zara gets 3 from Raj (Raj 12, Zara 18), gives 5 to Meera (Zara 13, Meera 20),
Meera gives 4 to Kabir (Meera 16, Kabir 19),
Kabir gives 7 to Alok (Kabir 12, Alok 22),
Alok gives 3 to Neha (Alok 19, Neha 18).
Alok + Neha = 19 + 18 = 37
Raj + Kabir + Zara = 12 + 12 + 13 = 37
Hence, option c is correct.

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Six friends — Raj, Kabir, Meera, Alok, Neha, and Zara — are participating in a fun fair where each is given 15 tokens to play games. Zara borrows 3 tokens from Raj,then gives away 5 tokens to Meera, Meera gives 4 tokens to Kabir, Kabir passes 7 tokens to Alok, and finally, Alok gives 3 tokens to Neha. After all these exchanges, the combined number of tokens with Alok and Neha is equal to the total number of tokens with which of the following groups? (a) Raj, Kabir, and Meera (b) Kabir, Meera, and Zara (c) Raj, Kabir, and Zara (d) Raj, Meera, and Zara