If SAVOURY is coded as OVUARSY then how will RADIATE be coded?

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If SAVOURY is coded as OVUARSY then how will RADIATE be coded?

Answer: D. IDAATREConcept: In this letter-coding pattern, the code is NOT built from a fresh alphabet shift — it uses the SAME letters of the given word, only rearranged.…

  1. A.

    AIDARET

  2. B.

    IDARATE

  3. C.

    ARIADTE

  4. D.

    IDAATRE

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Correct answer: D

Concept: In this letter-coding pattern, the code is NOT built from a fresh alphabet shift — it uses the SAME letters of the given word, only rearranged. Comparing the word with its code, position by position, reveals a fixed position sequence: it tells you which position of the original word each position of the code is drawn from. Applying that exact same position sequence to a new word produces its code.

Application -

  1. Number the letters of SAVOURY by position: S(1), A(2), V(3), O(4), U(5), R(6), Y(7).

  2. Locate each letter of the code OVUARSY within SAVOURY to see which original position it came from.

Position in code OVUARSY

Letter

Position it came from in SAVOURY

1

O

4

2

V

3

3

U

5

4

A

2

5

R

6

6

S

1

7

Y

7

  1. So the position sequence, read down the third column, is 4, 3, 5, 2, 6, 1, 7 — i.e., code-position 1 takes the letter sitting at original-position 4, code-position 2 takes the letter at original-position 3, and so on.

  2. Number the letters of RADIATE the same way: R(1), A(2), D(3), I(4), A(5), T(6), E(7).

  3. Apply the SAME position sequence (4, 3, 5, 2, 6, 1, 7) to RADIATE: take the letter at position 4 first, then the letter at position 3, then position 5, then position 2, then position 6, then position 1, then position 7.

  4. Position 4 of RADIATE is I, position 3 is D, position 5 is A, position 2 is A, position 6 is T, position 1 is R, and position 7 is E — laid out in that order this gives I, D, A, A, T, R, E, i.e. IDAATRE.

Cross-check - IDAATRE uses exactly the letters I, D, A, A, T, R, E, which is the same multiset of seven letters as R, A, D, I, A, T, E in RADIATE, just reordered — confirming no letter was dropped, duplicated, or substituted while applying the sequence.

So RADIATE is coded as IDAATRE.

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