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Direction: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from amongst the given choices so as to form a coherent paragraph.

  1. P : The computer took 45 hours of non-stop computation.
    Q : The computer was not allowed to learn from experience.
    R : This is not really surprising, because with eleven items of clothing the number of possible combinations is given by multiplying 11,10,9,8 and so on, which gives over 39 million combinations.
    S : Someone once used the IBM computer to work out the number of ways of getting dressed with eleven items of clothing.
    1. Q S P R
    2. S R P Q
    3. S Q R P
    4. S P R Q
Correct Option: D

On arranging the correct paragraph formation as :-
S is the opening sentence, since it introduces the narrative. P will follow S, as it tells the chronology of the event. That is, what happened next. This will be followed by R, since R begins with the reflective pronoun, that indicates the action that happened in P. Thus, the right sequence is SPRQ.



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