Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'BALL' is coded as '27' and 'BACK' is coded as '17'. How will 'RACE' be coded in that language?

Options:

27

22

17

37

Correct Answer:

27

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 OF ENGLISH APLPHABET

HERE

BALL =  3 + 1 + 12 + 12 =27

BACK = 2 + 1 + 3 + 11 = 17

SIMILARLY

RACE = 18 + 1 + 3 + 5 = 27