Question 9/20: Set 6 - Try Out - General Reasoning (SNBT)

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A detective found a code written as LXMKWKBZ, after being solved by the detective with a sequential keyword, the code is TESPANDA. Then the detective found another code, MMVFOBPT. Try to help the detective find the meaning of that code.

Explanation

We need to find the letter shift pattern from the code LXMKWKBZ to TESPANDA to solve the code MMVFOBPT.

Let's analyze the shift pattern:

Initial Code	Final Code	Shift
L ( $12$ )	T ( $20$ )	$+8$
X ( $24$ )	E ( $5$ )	$+7$ ( $24+7=31 \rightarrow 5$ )
M ( $13$ )	S ( $19$ )	$+6$
K ( $11$ )	P ( $16$ )	$+5$
W ( $23$ )	A ( $1$ )	$+4$ ( $23+4=27 \rightarrow 1$ )
K ( $11$ )	N ( $14$ )	$+3$
B ( $2$ )	D ( $4$ )	$+2$
Z ( $26$ )	A ( $1$ )	$+1$ ( $26+1=27 \rightarrow 1$ )

The pattern found is a forward shift starting from $+8$ and decreasing by $1$ at each step: $+8, +7, +6, +5, +4, +3, +2, +1$ .

Now let's apply this pattern to the code MMVFOBPT:

Code	Initial Pos	Shift	Final Pos	Result
M	$13$	$+8$	$21$	U
M	$13$	$+7$	$20$	T
V	$22$	$+6$	$28 \rightarrow 2$	B
F	$6$	$+5$	$11$	K
O	$15$	$+4$	$19$	S
B	$2$	$+3$	$5$	E
P	$16$	$+2$	$18$	R
T	$20$	$+1$	$21$	U

Thus, the meaning of the code is UTBKSERU.

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