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In a certain code language, ‘we are friends’ is written as ‘aj er kl’ and ‘friends are forever’ is written as ‘er aj pu’. How is ‘forever’ written in the given language?
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Identify common words between sentences and eliminate their corresponding codes; the remaining word must match the remaining unique code.
Identify common words between sentences and eliminate their corresponding codes; the remaining word must match the remaining unique code.
Analyze Sentence 1 and Sentence 2
Given: 'we are friends' = 'aj er kl' and 'friends are forever' = 'er aj pu'. The common words are 'are' and 'friends'. The common codes for these two sentences are 'aj' and 'er'.
Isolate the unique word
Since 'are' and 'friends' account for both 'aj' and 'er', the only word left in the second sentence is 'forever', and the only code left is 'pu'.
A: kl represents 'we' (the leftover code from sentence 1), C: aj represents either 'are' or 'friends', D: er represents either 'are' or 'friends'.
B is correct because 'pu' is the only code remaining in the second statement after removing the common codes 'aj' and 'er' belonging to 'are' and 'friends'.
Always list commonalities first in coding-decoding questions involving phrases; never try to decode single words in isolation without comparing all given sentences.