Question

In a certain code, ‘her idea has merit’ is written as ‘fo la bu na’, ‘merit list has been displayed’ is written as ‘jo ke la si na’, ‘her name displayed there’ is written as ‘ya sib u zo’ and ‘name is merit list’ is written as ‘na ya go ke’. What does ‘zo’ stand for?

Answer 1

Hint: The given question deals with a logical reasoning involving coding and decoding into a certain language. We are given the translations of some phrases in the language and we have to find out the meaning of a word on the basis of the given information. So, we first analyze the meaning of each word in the given statements and then find the meaning of the required word.

Complete step-by-step answer:
In the given question, we are given translations of various sentences into code.
So, we have, ‘her idea has merit’ written as ‘fo la bu na’.
Then, ‘merit list has been displayed’ is written as ‘jo ke la si na’.
Then, ‘her name displayed there’ is written as ‘ya si bu zo’.
Also, ‘name is merit list’ is written as ‘na ya go ke’.

Now, we look upon the common words in two sentences and find its corresponding code word in the language.
Comparing the first and third sentence, we get that the word ‘her’ is there in both the phrases. Also, the code word ‘bu’ is also there in both the codes. So, ‘her’ is coded as ‘bu’ in the language.

Comparing the third and last sentence, we get that the word ‘name’ is there in both the phrases. Similarly, the code word ‘ya’ is also repeated in the code. Hence, the word ‘name’ is coded as ‘ya’ in the language.

Comparing the second and third statement, we get that the word ‘displayed’ is repeated in both the phrases. Also, the code word ‘si’ is there in both the code expressions. Therefore, ‘displayed’ is coded as ‘si’ in the code language.

So, we have four words in the third statement, out of which we have interpreted the codes for three of them. The remaining word in the third statement is ‘there’. Also, the remaining code word in the expression is ‘zo’.
So, the code for ‘there’ is ‘zo’.
Hence, ‘zo’ stands for ‘there’.
So, the correct answer is “there”.

Note: We must have an open mind while solving such questions from the logical reasoning domain as each problem has a different approach. One must also take care while analyzing such problems as it takes a lot of mental work. We must practice more such problems to face them and to solve them in a limited time frame.