Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

Topic

Coding Decoding

Question:

In a certain code language, 'PEPPER' is coded as 76 and 'CUCUMBER' is coded as 86. How will 'CAULIFLOWER' be coded in that language?

Options:

125

126

116

106

Correct Answer:

125

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 POSITIONAL VALUES OF ALL ALPHABETS

AS

PEPPER

 = 16 + 5+  16 + 16 + 5 + 18

= 76

AND

CUCUMBER

3  + 21  + 3 + 21 + 13 + 2 + 5 + 18 = 86

SIMILARLY

CAULIFLOWER

3  + 1 +  21+ 12 + 9  +6 + 12  +  15 + 23  + 5 + 18 = 125