Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'FROST' is written as '156' and 'CANDLE' is written as '78'. How will 'SCREAM' be written in that language?

Options:

115

89

118

59

Correct Answer:

118

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  × 2 = CODE GIVEN

FROST

6 + 18 + 15 + 19 + 20 = 78

= 78 × 2

= 156

AND

CANDLE

3 + 1 + 14 + 4 + 12 + 5

= 39 × 2 = 78

SIMILARLY

SCREAM

19 + 3  + 18 + 5 + 1 + 13

= 59

= 59  × 2 = 118