Question 1
In a row of 55 people, after interchanging positions with B, A becomes 14th from the left and 42th from the right. If B was originally 12th from the right, what was A's original rank from the left?
Since B took A's original position, and B's original right rank was 12, we can find A's original left rank = total - r2_right + 1 = 55 - 12 + 1 = 9.