Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

 In a certain code language, 'ONION' is coded as 201 and 'POTATO' is coded as 261. How will 'MANGO' be coded in that language?

Options:

208

178

150

228

Correct Answer:

150

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 :

SUM OF THE POSITIONAL VALUE × 3

AS

O → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 15

N → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 14

I → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 9

O → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 15

N → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 14

(15 + 14 + 9 + 15 + 14) × 3

= 67 × 3

= 67 × 3

= 201

AND

P → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 16

O → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 15

T → (POSITIONAL VALUE) →20

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 1

T → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 20

O → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 1

( 16 + 15 + 1 + 20 + 1 ) × 3

= 87 × 3

= 261

SIMILARLY

M → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 13

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 1

N → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 14

G → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 7

O → (POSITIONAL VALUE) → 15

( 13 + 1 + 14 +  7 + 15 ) × 3

= 50 × 3

= 150