Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'BLUES' is written as 'HVFOY'. How will 'FORCED' be written in that language?

Options:

ULIXVW

XVWLIU

WVXILU

WVXJKU

Correct Answer:

WVXILU

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:

STEP 1: REVERSE THE LETTER GIVEN

STEP 2 : CODED THE OPPOSITE POSITIONAL VALUE

AS

BLUES = SEULB

S →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → H

E →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → V

U →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → F

L →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → O

B →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → Y

SIMILARLY

F →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → W

O →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → V

R →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → X

C →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → I

E →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → L

D →(OPPOSITE LETTER) → U