What does ‘$’ mean in a code language?
Statement (I): ‘5$#3’ means ‘Flowers are really good’.
Statement (II): ‘7#35’ means ‘Good Flowers are available’.
Read the questions and Statements (I & II). Decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → If both I & II together are necessary to answer the question.
In a coded sentence, a word that appears in two sentences has its symbol in both codes. Here each sentence has four words and four symbols.
Statement (I) alone: ‘5$#3’ = ‘Flowers are really good’. The four symbols stand for the four words in some order, so $ could be any of them. Not sufficient.
Statement (II) alone: ‘7#35’ does not contain $ at all, so it says nothing about it. Not sufficient.
Both together: the words common to the two sentences are flowers, are and good, and the symbols common to the two codes are 5, # and 3. So these three symbols stand for those three words, and the one symbol of (I) left over, $, stands for the one word left over, really.
So both statements together are needed.