Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'ACID' is written as 'ZBHC' and 'LAND' is written as ‘KZMC’. How will 'GOLD' be written in that language?

Options:

FNKB

FNKC

FNJC

FMKC

Correct Answer:

FNKC

Explanation:

1  2    3    4   5    6   7     8    9  10  11  12  13

 A   B   C    D   E    F   G    H    I    J    K    L   M

 ↓    ↓    ↓    ↓    ↓     ↓   ↓    ↓     ↓   ↓    ↓    ↓    ↓

 Z   Y    X   W   V    U   T    S    R   Q   P    O   N

26  25  24  23  22  21  20  19  18  17  16  15  14

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THE LOGIC FOLLOWED HERE IS:

FOR EACH LETTER POSITION IS SUBTRACTED BY 1 TO GET THE CODE LANGUAGE

AS

A → (-1) → Z

C  → (-1) → B

I → (-1) → H

D  → (-1) → C

AND

L → (-1) → K

A  → (-1) → Z

N → (-1) → M

D  → (-1) → C

SIMILARLY

G → (-1) → F

O  → (-1) → N

L  → (-1) → K

D  → (-1) → C