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Year

CAT 2018

Section

Data

Topic

Quant Based LR

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-2

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

According to a coding scheme the sentence: "Peacock is designated as the national bird of India" is coded as 56889993511355566785645813666689 13347913366

This coding scheme has the following rules:

a: The scheme is case-insensitive (does not distinguish between upper case and lower case letters).

b : Each letter has a unique code which is a single digit from among 1,2,3,,91,2,3, \ldots, 9.

c: The digit 9 codes two letters, and every other digit codes three letters.

d : The code for a word is constructed by arranging the digits corresponding to its letters in a non-decreasing sequence.

Answer these questions on the basis of this information.

Question 1

What best can be concluded about the code for the letter L?

1

8

1 or 8

6

Question 2

What best can be concluded about the code for the letter B ?

3 or 4

1 or 3 or 4

1

3

Question 3

For how many digits can the complete list of letters associated with that digit be identified?

1

2

0

3

Question 4

Which set of letters CANNOT be coded with the same digit?

S,E,Z

I,B,M

S,U,V

X, Y, Z

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