Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, ‘PAIR’ is written as ‘ZKIR’ and ‘SAIL’ is written as ‘ZHOR’. How will ‘BULK’ be written in that language?

Options:

OPYF

YFPO

FYPO

FPOY

Correct Answer:

FYPO

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 IS OPPOSITE AND EVERY TWO LETTER

INTERCHANGE THEIR POSITION IN CODE LANGUAGE

AS

PAIR = APRI

A → (OPPOSITE) → Z

P → (OPPOSITE) → K

R → (OPPOSITE) → I

I → (OPPOSITE) → R

AND

SAIL = ASLI

A → (OPPOSITE) → Z

S → (OPPOSITE) → H

L → (OPPOSITE) → O

I → (OPPOSITE) → R

SIMILARLY

BULK = UBKL

U → (OPPOSITE) → F

B → (OPPOSITE) → Y

K → (OPPOSITE) → P

L → (OPPOSITE) → O