Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, THICK is written as FELHW. How will RAISE be written in that language?

Options:

XFHBJ

DBLOV

DLBOV

XHFUV

Correct Answer:

DBLOV

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:

1) GIVEN LETTERS IN A WORD ARE ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER A TO Z

2) THEN ALTERNATE ALPHABETS INCREASING AND DECREASING BY +3 AND -3

AS

1) THICK → ALPHABETICAL ORDER → CHIKT

2) THEN ALTERNATE ALPHABETS INCREASING AND DECREASING BY +3 AND -3

C → (+3 ) → F

H  → (-3 ) → E

I → (+3 ) → L

C → (-3 ) → H

T  → (+3 ) → W

SIMILARLY

1) RAISE → ALPHABETICAL ORDER → AEIRS

2) THEN ALTERNATE ALPHABETS INCREASING AND DECREASING BY +3 AND -3

A → (+3 ) → D

E  → (-3 ) → B

I → (+3 ) → L

R → (-3 ) → O

S  → (+3 ) → V