Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'LANDS' is written as '10' and ‘TRAM’ is written as ‘13’. How will 'TASTE' be written in that language?1

Options:

17

12

13

15

Correct Answer:

13

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 ACTUAL POSITION VALUE ACCORDING TO THE ENGLISH ALPHABETIC SERIES IS DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF LETTERS WITHIN THE WORD

AS

LANDS

L = 12

A = 1

N = 13

D = 4

S = 19

12 + 1 + 13  + 4 + 19 = 50

AND 50 ÷ 5 = 10

TRAM

T = 20

R = 18

A = 1

M = 13

20 + 18 + 1 + 13 = 52

AND 52 ÷ 4  = 13

SIMILARLY

TASTE

T = 20

A = 1

S = 19

T = 20

E = 5

20 + 1 + 19 + 20 + 5 = 65

AND 65 ÷ 5 = 13