Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'GLOVE' is coded as 148. How will 'OBDURATE' be coded in that language?

Options:

602

402

520

502

Correct Answer:

520

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 :

GIVEN ALPHABET IS CODED AS REVERSE VALUE × NUMBER OF VOWEL = CODE GIVEN

AS

G(7) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 20

L(12) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 15

O(15) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 12

V(21) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 5

E(5) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 22

= 20 + 15 + 12 + 5  +  22 = 74

= 74 ×  2 = 148

SIMILARLY

O(15) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 12

B(2) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 25

D(4) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 23

U(21) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 6

R(18) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 9

A(1) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 26

T(20) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 7

E(5) → (OPPOSITE LETTER POSITIONAL VALUE) → 22

= 12 + 25 + 23 + 6 + 9 + 26 + 7 + 22 =130

= 130 ×  4 = 520