PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-71

Directions (Qs.1 to 5): The following questions are based on five words given below:

RAT   ONE   BUT   AND    SAW

(The new words formed after performing the mentioned operations may or may not necessarily be meaningful English words.)

Question No : 1

If in each of the given words, each alphabet is changed to the next letter in the English alphabetical series, in how many words thus formed have the consonants changed to vowels?

(1) One

(2) Two

(3) Three

(4) Four

(5) Five

Question No : 2

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word highlighted in bold, each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions) as they have between them in the English alphabetical order?

(1) None

(2) One

(3) Two

(4) Three

(5) Four

Question No : 3

If the first alphabet of each of the words is changed to the next alphabet in the English alphabetical series, how many meaningful English words will be formed?

(1) One

(2) Two

(3) Three

(4) Four

(5) Five

Question No : 4

If the given words are arranged in the order as they would appear in the dictionary from left to right, which of the following would be fourth from the left?

(1) RAT

(2) ONE

(3) BUT

(4) AND

(5) SAW

Question No : 5

If in each of the given words, only the consonants are changed to the next letter in the English alphabetical series and the vowels are retained, in how many words thus formed will the vowels appear twice or more times? (same or different vowels)

(1) None

(2) One

(3) Two

(4) Three

(5) Four