How many such pairs of letters are there in the word
STAINLESS each of which has as many letters between them in
the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same
sequence?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Five
(e) None of these
Answer Posted / preeti
the question generally means - to identify the no of words
in which starting letter and the ending letter must have
the same position difference as in English alphabet
here STAINLESS has two such pairs
ST - in alphabetical order.
A(INL)E WHICH MEANS A(BCD)E - A and E have three alphabets
in between.
in some books i also found that the word is scanned from
right and not from left.
my answer would be (a) two
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