PROBLEMS BASED ON ALPHABETS

1. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘SEPARATE’ each of which has
as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions),
as there are between them in the English alphabetical series?
1) Two 2) Four 3) Three 4) Five 5) More than Five
2. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘ENIGMATIC’ each of which has
as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions),
as there are between them in the English alphabetical series?
1) None 2) Two 3) One 4) Three 5) More than three
3. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘DICTATOR’ each of which has
as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions),
as there are between them in the English alphabetical series?
1) Two 2) None 3) One 4) Three 5) More than three
4. How many such pairs of digits are there in the number ‘596748392’ both in forward
and backward directions, each of which has as many digits between them in the
number as in the Arithmetic numerals?
1) Two 2) Four 3) One
4) Three 5) More than four
5. How many such pairs of digits are there in the number ‘815472639’ both in forward
and backward directions, each of which has as many digits between them in the
number as in the Arithmetic numerals?
1) Three 2) Two 3) Four
4) five 5) More than five
6. How many meaningful english words can be made with the letters ‘NEAB’ using each
letter only once in each word?
1) One 2) Two 3) None 4) Three 5) More than three
7. How many meaningful english words can be made with the letters ‘EDSI’ using each
letter only once in each word?
1) One 2) Two 3) None
4) Three 5) More than three
8. How many meaningful english words can be made with the letters ‘ELSMI’ using each
letter only once in each word?
1) None 2) Two 3) One 4) Three 5) More than three
9. If only one meaningful English word can be formed with the second, third, sixth and
ninth letters of the word MALEVOLENT which will be second letter from the right of
the word so formed? If more than one such word can be formed, mark your answer as
X. If no such word can be formed, mark your answer as Y.
1) O 2) A 3) L 4) Y 5) X
10. If only one meaningful English word can be formed with the fifth, seventh, eleventh
and twelfth letters of the word ACQUAINTANCE which will be second letter from the
right of the word so formed? If more than one such word can be formed, mark your
answer as Y. If no such word can be formed, mark your answer as X.
1) O 2) A 3) L 4) Y 5) X
11. If all letters of the word PREVIOUS are arranged as per the English alphabetical
series. Then a meaningful English word (starting with S) is formed with the first,
third, fifth and sixth alphabets of the word so formed, which of the following will be
the third letter of the word from left?
1) R 2) S 3) O 4) E
5) No meaningful word can be formed
12. If all the letters in the word NERVOUS are rearranged as they appear in the english
alphabets, the position of how many letters will remain unchanged after the
rearrangement?
1) None 2) Two 3) One 4) Three 5) Four
13. How will the word VOGUE be written as, if all its letters are arranged in alphabetical
order and then each letter is replaced by its previous letter in the english alphabetical
series?
1) FHPVW 2) DFNTU 3) DFPTU 4) EFNTU 5) DHPTU
14. If all the vowels of the word ‘FLEXIBLE’ are substituted with next letter of the english
alphabetical series and each consonant is substituted with the letter preceding it and
then all the letters are arranged in alphabetical order, which of the following would be
the fourth letter from the right?
1) W 2) A 3) F 4) K 5) J
15. How many alphabets (as per the English alphabetical order) are there between the
third and eight letters of the word ‘UNEXPLORE’?
1) 12 2) 9 3) 11 4) 13 5) 7
16. If in the word ‘INTRACTABLE’ all consonants are first arranged alphabetically and
then all the vowels are arranged alphabetically which letter will be third to the right of
eighth letter from the right?
1) N 2) L 3) T 4) A 5) R
17. If the letters of the word ‘MOTIVATED’ are arranged in alphabetical order, which
letter will come at the exactly middle position?
1) V 2) M 3) O 4) I 5) None
18. Suppose the first and second letters in the word ‘ADMINISTRATIVELY’ were inter-
changed also the third and fourth letters, the fifth and sixth so on. Find out the
twelfth letter from right end?
1) N 2) T 3) I 4) S 5) M
19. The letters in the word ‘PIXELATED’ are changed in such a way that the consonants
are replaced by the previous letter in the English alphabet and the vowels are re-
placed by the next letter in the English alphabet. Which of the following will be the
third letter from the left end of new set of letters?
1) W 2) S 3) X 4) T 5) None of these
20. If in the word ‘INDURATE’, all the vowels are first arranged alphabetically and then all
the consonants are arranged alphabetically and then all the vowels replaced by the
next letter and all the consonants are replaced by previous letter from English alpha-
bet, which letter will be third from the right end?
1) N 2) J 3) I
4) M 5) None of these
21. If the Odd/ Even numbered letters of the word RENDEZVOUS’ are shifted to the next
Odd/Even numbered position in such a manner that the first letter is shifted to the
3rd position the third to 5th position and so on. Till the last Odd / Even numbered
letters are shifted to the 1st and 2nd positions respectively then which of the following
will be the 7th letter from the right end?
1) D 2) E 3) V
4) Z 5) None of these
22. If the letters of the word ‘BLEARIEST’ are arranged in reverse alphabetical order from
left to right, then which letter will be fourth letter from left end?
1) I 2) M 3) L 4) A 5) Cannot be determined
23. If each vowel of the word HYPERACTIVE is changed to the next letter in English al-
phabetical series and consonant is changed to the previous letter in the English alpha-
betical series, then how many alphabets will appear twice in the new arrangement?
1) None 2) Two 3) One
4) Three 5) More than three
24. If two is added to each even digit and two is subtracted from each odd digit in the
number 729436526 and then in the new number thus formed all digits are arranged
in ascending order, which of the following will be third from the right?
1) 3 2) 8 3) 4 4) 7 5) 5
25. If all the digits in the number 539768412 are arranged in descending order from left
to right, the position(s) of how many number(s) will remain unchanged?
1) None 2) One 3) Three 4) Two 5) More than three
26. If all the digits of the number 28695413 are arranged in descending order from left to
right within the number, then what will be the difference between the second digit
from the left and the fourth digit from the right after the rearrangement?
1) 3 2) 4 3) 5
4) 2 5) Other than the given options
27. The position of the first and sixth digits in the number 7340593628 are interchanged,
similarly the positions of the second and seventh digits are interchanged and so on.
Which of the following will be the eighth digit from the left end after the rearrangement?
1) 3 2) 6 3) 2 4) 9 5) 4
28. If + means ,  means ,  means – and – means +, then which of the following gives
result of 37 – 5  4  6 + 48 = ?
1) 26.25 2) 17 3) 22.5 4) 10 5) None of these
29. If – means , + means ,  means –,  means +, then which of the following gives result
of 15 – 3 + 10  5  5 = ?
1) 22 2) 50 3) 34 4) 40 5) None of these
30. I f Q means ‘multiply by’, S means ‘divided by’, M means ‘add to’ and D means ‘subtract
from’ then 26 Q 24 S 4 D 5 M 2 = ?
1) 28 2) 316 3) 153 4) 175 5) 180