- AThree
- BFour
- CFive
- DTwo
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Steps place apple, fig, grape, then mango (leaving orange last), reaching apple fig grape mango orange after four steps.
Answer: B) Four
A word-arrangement machine, when given a line of words, rearranges them step by step. In each step it moves the word that is alphabetically earliest among the words not yet placed to the next free position from the left; the remaining words keep their order. Input: orange fig mango apple grape. How many steps are required to complete the arrangement (all words in alphabetical order)?
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