Arrange the following in decreasing order of their number.

(i) Number of phalanges in each hand is 14

(ii) Total number of wrist bones in a human is 16

(iii) Total number of metacarpals in human body is10

(iv) Number of bones in each upper limb is 30

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Number of phalanges in each hand is 14. These are bones of digits. All digits have 3 phalanges except thumb that has only two phalanges.

Wrist bones are carpals. Total carpals in human is $8 \times 2 = 16$

Metacarpals are bones of palm, Total metacarpals is $5 \times 2 = 10$

Number of bones in each limb $= 30$

Thus the answer is C.

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