Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, ‘ALERT’ is written as ‘11251820’ and ‘HERD’ is written as ‘85184’. What will be the code for ‘CLOTH’ in that code language?

Options:

31215208

31512207

31215218

38152014

Correct Answer:

31215208

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:

PLACE VALUE OF ALL ALPHABETS

AS

ALERT IS WRITTEN AS

A = 1

L = 12

E = 5

R = 18

T = 20

HEAD IS WRITTEN AS

H = 8

E = 5

A = 1

D = 4

SIMILARLY

CLOTH IS WRITTEN AS ?

C = 3

L = 12

O = 15

T = 20

H = 8

THEREFORE CLOTH IS WRITTEN AS 31215208