Consider the following paragraph: THE ABILITY TO REASON ACCURATELY IS VERY IMPORTANT, AS IS THE ABILITY TO COUNT. AS AN EXERCISE IN BOTH, LET US COUNT HOW MANY TIMES THE LETTER "E" OCCURS IN THIS PARAGRAPH. THE CORRECT COUNT IS ___________.

Which option when put in the blank in the above paragraph will make the final sentence accurate?

Correct option is D

Solution:

Here are the counts of E

THE -1                ABILITY-0                                       TO-0

REASON-1        ACCURATELY-1                            IS-0

VERY-1              IMPORTANT-0                              AS-0

IS-0                         THE-1                                 ABILITY-0

TO-0                     COUNT-0                              AS-0

AN-0                    EXERCISE-3                        IN-0

BOTH-0               LET-1                                   US-0

COUNT-0         HOW-0                               MANY-0

TIMES-1             THE-1                            LETTER-2

"E" -1                 OCCURS-0                      IN-0

THIS-0              PARAGRAPH-0               THE-1

CORRECT-1

So here number of "E" is 16

(a)SIXTEEN

here number "E" is 2 so total 16 + 2 = 18

So (1) is not correct

(b) SEVENTEEN

here number "E" is 4 so total 16 + 4 = 20

So (2) is not correct

(c) EIGHTEEN

here number "E" is 3 so total 16 + 3 = 19

So (3) is not correct

(d)NINETEEN

here number "E" is 3 so total 16 + 3 = 19 = NINETEEN

So (d) is correct