Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, ‘MANGO’ is coded as ‘13-2-42-28-75’and ‘GRAPE’ is coded as ‘7-36-3-64-25’. How will ‘APPLE’ be coded in that language?

Options:

1 - 32 - 48 - 48 - 25

1 - 32 - 24 - 21 - 30

2 - 32 - 48 - 24 - 28

2 - 16 - 48 - 21 - 25

Correct Answer:

1 - 32 - 48 - 48 - 25

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 :

M → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 13 × 1 = 13

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 1 × 2 = 2

N → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 14 × 3 = 42

G → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 7 × 4 = 28

O  → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 15 × 5 = 75

AND

G → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 7 × 1 = 7

R → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 18 × 2 = 36

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 1 × 3 = 3

P → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 16 × 4 = 64

E  → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 5 × 5 = 25

SIMILARLY

A → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 1 × 1 = 1

P → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 16 × 2 = 32

P → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 16 × 3 = 48

L → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 12 × 4 = 48

E  → (POSITIONAL VALUE)  → 5 × 5 = 25