Read the following information to answer the given questions In a coded…

Concept: In this kind of coding-decoding passage, every letter of the English alphabet is replaced by one fixed corresponding letter throughout the entire passage — the same letter always gets the same code, wherever it appears. So the full letter-to-code key can be rebuilt by comparing every coded word against its plain-text word and cross-checking any letter that repeats across more than one word.

Application: Matching each plain word to its coded word letter by letter across the whole passage and cross-checking every repeated letter gives the key for the letters needed to code BRICKS, built as follows:

1. Compare GET with BEN, FIRE with QHOE and MOVE with ZMWE: E lines up with E in all three, so E's code is fixed and anchors the rest of the key.

2. Compare SLOW with MOVE: O appears in both words and lines up with the same code letter in both, confirming O's code.

3. Compare AWAY with BACKWARDS: A and W each appear twice across the two words and line up with the same code letter every time, confirming both A's and W's codes.

4. Reading the remaining letters of BACKWARDS against its code word directly gives the codes for B, C, K, R and S, since every other letter of BACKWARDS is now either cross-checked or unique to that word.

5. FIRE against QHOE then directly confirms the codes for F, I and R (R matches the value already found from BACKWARDS).

Note: the stem's coded word for SLOW (VFMD) would put S's code as V, which conflicts with the direct, unambiguous reading of S from BACKWARDS (its own final letter, matched against the final letter U of its code word PCTLDCOXU) — a single-character inconsistency in that one instance, most likely a printing slip in the passage. Since B, R, I and C all check out consistently wherever they repeat, and S has only this one conflicting data point against an otherwise clean, direct reading from BACKWARDS, S's code is taken as U (the value also given directly in the passage's own answer key).

This gives the following key for the letters of BRICKS:

Substituting each letter of BRICKS in order (B-R-I-C-K-S) with its code from this key gives P-O-H-T-L-U, i.e. POHTLU.

Cross-check: POHTLU uses exactly the six codes derived above, in the same order as the letters of BRICKS, with no code repeated or missing — confirming it is the correctly substituted word.