Question

A person is standing on the first step from the bottom of a ladder. If he has to climb 4 more steps to reach exactly the middle step, how many steps does the ladder have?
1. 8
2. 9
3. 10
4. 11

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 9

When the person will climb 4 more steps, he will reach the 5th step. As 5th step is the middle step, implies, there will be 4 steps below it and 4 steps above it.
Total number of steps = 4 + 1 + 4 = 9 steps.

Hence, there are 9 steps in the ladder.