Find the missing number in the given puzzle.

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answer is A.

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Concept- Here, we must locate the omitted number. To identify the missing number, we will look for a relationship between the numbers in the left and right columns of numbers, such as a total, difference, multiple, etc. The missing number should be related to 32 in the same way.
Let column A contain the digits 8, 16, 4, 22, and the missing number. Column B should be the one containing the numbers 13, 6, 19, 2, and 32. The corresponding numbers in columns A and B must be related in some way. Any arithmetic operation may be included in the relation. First, we look at how the first integers in column B and column A differ.
13−8=5
Similar differences may be seen in columns B and A's second, third, and fourth numbers.
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We can observe that these equations follow a pattern.
The first multiple of 5, with the positive sign, is the difference between the first two integers.
The second multiple of 5 with a negative sign represents the difference between the second values.
The third multiple of 5 with the positive sign is the difference between the third numbers.
The fourth multiple of 5, with the negative sign, is the difference between the fourth numbers.
The fifth multiple of 5, with a positive sign, must therefore be the difference between the fifth numbers.

Hence, the correct answer is option 1.

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