In a certain code language, ‘RUMSZ’ is written as ‘PRINT’. How will ‘FUMSQ’ be…

Concept: In this letter-shift coding-decoding pattern, each letter of a word is shifted backward in the alphabet by a different amount for each position, with the shift amount increasing by one for each successive letter (typically −2, −3, −4, −5, −6 for a five-letter word). Once this per-position shift sequence is confirmed from the given code pair, the same sequence is applied to the new word to find its code.

Application:

1. Confirm the shift pattern from the given pair RUMSZ → PRINT: R − 2 = P, U − 3 = R, M − 4 = I, S − 5 = N, Z − 6 = T — the shift amount increases from 2 to 6, one more for each successive letter.

2. Apply the same five shifts, in the same order, to the letters of FUMSQ.

3. F − 2 = D

4. U − 3 = R

5. M − 4 = I

6. S − 5 = N

7. Q − 6 = K

8. Combining these letters in order gives the code word for FUMSQ.

Cross-check:

The letters U and M appear in FUMSQ at the same positions as in RUMSZ, so their coded letters (R and I) can be confirmed directly from the given example pair without recomputing, which checks that the shift sequence was read correctly.

The code word obtained for FUMSQ is DRINK.