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Six books of various subjects are kept in a shelf one on the top of the other. Electronics book is placed directly on top of the Chemistry book. Statistics book is immediately between Commerce book…

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Six books of various subjects are kept in a shelf one on the top of the other. Electronics book is placed directly on top of the Chemistry book. Statistics book is immediately between Commerce book and Environmental Science book. The book of Botany is immediately between Electronics and Commerce books. The book of which subject is at the top?
  1. Chemistry
  2. Commerce
  3. Environmental Science
  4. Electronics

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Correct answer: C - Environmental Science
With 'immediately between', the chain is Env Sci - Statistics - Commerce - Botany - Electronics - Chemistry. Electronics must be directly on top of Chemistry, so this runs top to bottom: Environmental Science is at the top.

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