Question

     In the word ‘DEVASTATE’ all consonants are written as their preceding letter and all vowels are written as their following letters. Now all letters are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right and all the repeated letters are eliminated. Then, how many such pairs of letters are there, each of which have as many letters between them in the word (forward direction) as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?

    A One Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Three Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Two Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Four Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The word - D E V A S T A T E

        C F U B R S B S F

        B B C F F R S S U

        B C F R S U

        

    Only BC and RS are there for the forward arrangement.  

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