Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In certain code language, ‘DID’ is coded as ‘494’, ‘DEAR’ is coded as ‘4518’ and ‘BENT’ is coded as ‘2540’. How will ‘FOR’ be coded in that language?

Options:

668

557

567

658

Correct Answer:

658

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:

EACH LETTER HAS CODE LANGUAGE OF ITS POSITION AND THE FOR TWO DIGIT POSITION  THE LAST DIGIT IS USED AS THE CODE LANGUAGE OF THAT LETTER

ALPHABETS              D     I       D

POSITION                 4     9      4

CODE                        4     9      4

 

AND,

 

ALPHABETS              D     E       A      R

POSITION                 4     5      1       18

CODE                        4     5      1        8

 

AND,

 

ALPHABETS              B       E       N      T

POSITION                 2      5      14       20

CODE                        2      5      4        0

 

SIMILARLY

 

ALPHABETS              F       O         R     

POSITION                 6       15      18     

CODE                       6        5         8    

HENCE 658 IS CORRECT ANSWER