In each of the following questions, the second word is formed by rearranging…
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In each of the following questions, the second word is formed by rearranging the letters of the first word using a specific transformation, such as reversal or block shifting. Identify that transformation and apply it to the third word to choose the correct option.
KITCAT : CATTIK :: PENTOP : ?
Answer: B. TOPNEP — Concept: In a letter analogy of the form A : B :: C : ?, the transformation is a fixed positional map — a rule that fixes which position of the source word…
- A.
TOPPEN
- B.
TOPNEP
- C.
POPTEN
- D.
POPNET
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Correct answer: B
Concept: In a letter analogy of the form A : B :: C : ?, the transformation is a fixed positional map — a rule that fixes which position of the source word supplies each letter of the result. Recover the map by numbering the letters of the first word and reading the second word off those numbers, then apply the very same map to the third word. When a repeated letter allows more than one assignment, the description the question itself gives — here a reversal or a block shift — decides which assignment counts, so the map must be one that moves or reverses whole blocks rather than interleaving letters across them.
Application: Number the letters of each word from 1 to 6 and read the map off the given pair.
Number the first word: K = 1, I = 2, T = 3, C = 4, A = 5, T = 6.
Read the second word against those numbers: C comes from 4, A from 5, T from 6, the next T from 3, I from 2 and K from 1, so the map is 4-5-6-3-2-1.
Stated in blocks, that map carries the closing three letters forward unchanged (CAT) and then writes the opening three letters backwards (KIT becomes TIK).
Number the third word the same way: P = 1, E = 2, N = 3, T = 4, O = 5, P = 6.
Apply 4-5-6-3-2-1 to it: place 4 gives T, place 5 gives O, place 6 gives P, place 3 gives N, place 2 gives E and place 1 gives P, which spells TOPNEP.
Place in result | Source position | Letter from KITCAT | Letter from PENTOP |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 4 | C | T |
2 | 5 | A | O |
3 | 6 | T | P |
4 | 3 | T | N |
5 | 2 | I | E |
6 | 1 | K | P |
Cross-check: Run the recovered map back over the given pair: 4-5-6-3-2-1 applied to KITCAT rebuilds CATTIK letter for letter. KITCAT carries a T at both place 3 and place 6, so at letter level the assignment 4-5-3-6-2-1 would spell CATTIK as well; that rule interleaves letters across the block boundary instead of moving or reversing whole blocks, which the question excludes, and on PENTOP it would spell TONPEP, a word not offered here. A plain exchange of the two halves would be the map 4-5-6-1-2-3, but it turns KITCAT into CATKIT rather than the second word given, and on PENTOP it spells TOPPEN. Those two block rules differ only in the order of the last three letters, and that is exactly the step the given pair settles, so the word produced by the established transformation is TOPNEP.