Nine children (Andrew, Ben, Candy, David, Ella, Fiona, Gordon, Henry, Ivan) form a circle in alphabetical order, clockwise. To c

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Nine children (Andrew, Ben, Candy, David, Ella, Fiona, Gordon, Henry, Ivan) form a circle in alphabetical order, clockwise. To c

hoose a leader they decide to start from one of them, count up to 5 clockwise, ask the fifth person to leave, and so on. The last person left in the circle is the leader. Andrew does the counting and he wants to be the leader. With which child should he start to count?

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blondinia [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-10-06T11:29:49+03:00

blondinia [14]3 years ago

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We should start counting from fiona