There are 12 black mouse and 1 white mouse in a circle. The counting starts from one white mouse. The cat starts eating the mouse and begins with black mouse then it eats 13th mouse. From which number it should start eating so that the last mouse is white?

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john

  • Oct 7th, 2005
 

it should start from 2

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Devanathan.J

  • Nov 18th, 2005
 

john Wrote:

it should start from 2

How u said it start from 2 (Check with probability).

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pravin

  • Aug 2nd, 2006
 

hi

     can u explain me answer how it is 2

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CHANDRA SEKAR

  • Aug 19th, 2006
 

 consider a circle .

in that, let 1st mouse be white. leaving  that the cat is alowed to start eat the 2nd mouse in a circular format . then finally the last will b white mouse (at 13 th position)

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swathi

  • Aug 24th, 2006
 

hi,

   can u explain how it is 5?

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kripal

  • Sep 4th, 2006
 

there are 2 possibilities

The cat can start from 2nd mouse if going clock wise

or from 13th one if going anticlock wise

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Diana

  • Oct 18th, 2006
 

It should start from 11th mouse.The 13th mouse should be a white mouse

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ferdi

  • Nov 26th, 2006
 

it should starts from 13 because white mouse is the first position in the circle

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harsha1000

  • Dec 11th, 2010
 

It starts with 5th mouse.
The next 13th mouse will be 6th mouse as it has already eaten 5th one.
The next will be 8th mouse and so on.
The last one would be the white mouse.

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