ZIO 2011 Question Help

Hello!!
I need help in the question no 3rd (a) part of the following question paper:
Question paper : https://www.iarcs.org.in/inoi/2011/zio2011/zio2011-qpaper.pdf
My answer to the (a) part comes out to be 39. But in the solutions, it is given 37 as the answer.
Answers : https://www.iarcs.org.in/inoi/2011/zio2011/zio2011-solutions.pdf
Can anybody help…

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Hello @sumit_king ,
Can you tell your approach for the problem ? ( will be easy to understand what you are doing wrong )

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I am going on each number and then counting the numbers which are smaller than the number which is fixed and each number which i am selecting is bigger or equal to the previous number…
Did you got that @sudheerays123??

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Btw @sudheerays123,
i have got the answer for next two parts by this method…But the answer for the 1st part is going wrong…

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Yes I think this is correct
Send me your solution i.e for all the buildings , write the number of buildings you can connect from that building
Then , i can tell you where you are wrong !

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The Sequence is as follows :
5+1+1+2+1+4+5+1+1+5+2+1+1+2+1+1+3+1+1+0 = 39
Is this correct @sudheerays123 ??

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This is 3 not 5
The number of connections for building 7 is 3 not 5 , check once again , you might have done some mistake
Now you will get 37 as your answer !
Thats it !!

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Oh yes!! I got that …
Thank You So Much!!@sudheerays123

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@sumt_king ,
I have created a topic to discuss the ZIO problems which i couldn’t solve , If you have solved any of them , Pls help me by giving a hint !!

Here is the link of the topic : ZIO problems - #77 by sudheerays123

Thanks a lot !!

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No problem !! @sumit_king

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Ohk I’ll try them…

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