Esteban is in a line at a theater. If he is the 26th person counting from the back of the line and the 18th person counting from the front of the line, how many people are in the line?
A
41
B
42
C
43
D
44
E
45
Correct answer: C
Explanation
Total no. of persons = (Position of A from left + Position of A from right) -1
Total no. of persons = (26 + 18) – 1 = 44 – 1 = 43
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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