Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'MOHAN' is coded as 39-45-24-3-42 and 'KABIR' is coded as 33-3-6-27-54. How will 'RAGHU' be coded in that language?

Options:

54-3-21-24-63

36-2-14-24-42

36-3-14-16-63

54-2-21-16-42

Correct Answer:

54-3-21-24-63

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:

EVERY POSITIONAL VALUE IS MULEIPLIED BY 3

AS

M → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 13 × 3 = 39

O → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 15 × 3 = 45

H → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 8 × 3 = 24

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 1 × 3 = 3

N → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 14 × 3 = 42

SIMILARLY

K → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 11 × 3 = 33

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 1 × 3 = 3

B → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 2 × 3 = 6

I → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 9 × 3 = 27

R → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 18 × 3 = 54