Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'SAFETY' is coded as '95' and 'EXPAND' is coded as '87'. How will 'GATHER' be coded in that language?

Options:

90

86

88

84

Correct Answer:

86

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 POSITIONAL VALUE + NO. OF CONSONANTS

AS

SAFETY

19 + 1 + 6 + 5 + 20 + 25 = 76

76 + 4 = 80

AND

EXPAND

5 + 24  + 16 + 1 +14 + 4 = 64

64 + 4 = 68

SIMILARLY

GATHER

7 + 1  + 20 + 8 + 5 + 18 = 59

59 + 4 = 63