CAT 2017 Quant Based LR Question (Medium)

Question

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word PAINTED each of which has as many letters between them in the word in both forward and backward directions, as there are between them in the English alphabetical series?

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What the question asks. PAINTED has seven letters, and the question asks how many of the 21 possible letter pairs in it have the same number of letters sitting between them inside the word as sit between those two letters in the A to Z alphabet. A pair s gap in the word is the same whether you count

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