In a certain code language, ‘TAN’ is written as ‘33’ and ‘PAM’ is written as ‘28’. What will be the code for ‘BUG’ in that code language?

28

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 PLACE VALUE - 2

AS

TAN

= (20 + 1 + 14) - 2

= 35  - 2 = 33

PAM

= (16 + 1 +13) - 2

= 30 - 2 = 28

THEREFORE

BUG

= (2  + 21 + 7) - 2

= 30 - 2 =28