Question

Tips about number of steps:

1. If there are $n$ words/digits in the input then at most $n-1$ steps are required to arrange it completely.

2. Number of words/digits arranged until the present step is greater than or equal to the present step number.

3. The pattern is 'number-descending-from-left and letters-ascending-from-right-alternately-pattern'.

Following the above pattern, how many steps will be required to complete the arrangement for the below given input?
84 out sown even 35 54 around 46

Answer 1

In the given illustration, the words/digits are being arranged in the following manner: the lowest digit is arranged at leftmost of the sentence and all others are shifted to the right side as it is and in second step, highest word of dictionary is arranged right of the previously arranged number and so on. The next higher digit and next highest word is arranged in subsequent pair of steps.
Here is how you would go about numbering these elements. Note that underlined elements represent those ones to the left that you havent numbered yet.
$\begin{array}{ccccccccc}First:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 56\\ & & & & & 1& & & \\ Second:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & & & 2& & 1& & & \\ Third:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & & & 2& & 1& & & 3\\ Fourth:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & & 4& 2& & 1& & & 3\\ Fifth:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & & 4& 2& & 1& 5& & 3\\ Sixth:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & & 4& 2& 6& 1& 5& & 3\\ Seventh:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & 6a& 4& 2& 6& 1& 5& & 3\\ Eighth:& 84& out& sown& even& 35& 54& around& 46\\ & 6a& 4& 2& 6& 1& 5& 6b& 3\end{array}$
Here, $6a$ and $6b$ are not given further values at the time of filling, as all elements to the left of these two have been filled already. Hence, these two entities are arranged automatically in step 6. In addition, step 6 is the last step of the input, so six steps are required to complete the arrangement.