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CAT/2000

Question . 93

There is a regular octagon A B C D E F G H, a frog is at the vertex A. It can jump on to any of the vertices except the exactly opposite vertex. The frog visits all the vertices exactly once and then reaches vertex E then how many times did it jump before reaching E?

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Method of solving this CAT Quantitative Ability Question from Geometry question

A frog couldn’t jump on the vertices E. Therefore, there are 6 other vertices where it jumped. Thus, there are 6 jumps before reaching E.