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In a certain code, ‘floor door room’ is coded as ‘bn la mt’, ‘door chair table’ is coded as 'wd bn ka’ and ‘chair room window’ is coded as ‘ka bz la’. All the codes are two-letter code only. What is room coded as?
ka
bn
la
bz
la
Identify common words across code strings to isolate the mapping. 'room' appears in the first and third statements, so look for the code shared by those two lines.
Identify common words across code strings to isolate the mapping. 'room' appears in the first and third statements, so look for the code shared by those two lines.
Analyze Statement 1 and 3
Statement 1: 'floor door room' is 'bn la mt'. Statement 3: 'chair room window' is 'ka bz la'. The word 'room' is common to both statements.
Identify Common Code
Comparing the codes 'bn la mt' and 'ka bz la', the common two-letter code is 'la'.
Verify with other statements
Since 'room' must map to 'la', checking Statement 2 ('door chair table' = 'wd bn ka') shows 'door' maps to 'bn' and 'chair' maps to 'ka', confirming 'la' is uniquely assigned to 'room'.
A: 'ka' is the code for 'chair' based on statements 2 and 3. B: 'bn' is the code for 'door' based on statements 1 and 2. D: 'bz' is a unique code for either 'chair' or 'window', not 'room'.
C is correct because 'la' is the only code present in both the first and third sentences, matching the occurrence of the word 'room'.
Always start by finding words that appear in the maximum number of sentences to quickly narrow down the code mapping.