If 'GOLD' is coded as 'HOME', how would you code 'SONS'?

The correct answer is Option (4) → TOOT

In letter coding, each letter is moved a fixed number of places in the alphabet, and the shift for each position is read off the given pair. Comparing GOLD with HOME:

• G → H: +1

• O → O: 0 (the letter stays the same)

• L → M: +1

• D → E: +1

The same shifts on SONS, position by position:

• S + 1 = T

• O + 0 = O

• N + 1 = O

• S + 1 = T

So SONS is coded as TOOT.