Help please on code question
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Re: Help please on code question
hermanmunster wrote:Good advice, re excluding the impossible answers - actually thinking about it, that is how I would have done it when I did 11 plus.BucksBornNBred wrote:I think you are overthinking this particular example. Z appears in both codes which discounts three options. Of the two options left one has the same letter twice (dead) but the code has 4 unique letters therefore "deaf" is the only real option. Start with the obvious before breaking out the whole alphabet would be my advice.
That's a great way of eliminating the wrong answers - thank you for all your replies
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Re: Help please on code question
This was the way we were taught (by the school in my day) to approach this type of question. If it isn't immediately obvious then you have only lost a few seconds before going on to use a codebreaker - if it is immediately obvious then you have saved valuable time for the rest of the test!SleepyHead wrote:hermanmunster wrote:Good advice, re excluding the impossible answers - actually thinking about it, that is how I would have done it when I did 11 plus.BucksBornNBred wrote:I think you are overthinking this particular example. Z appears in both codes which discounts three options. Of the two options left one has the same letter twice (dead) but the code has 4 unique letters therefore "deaf" is the only real option. Start with the obvious before breaking out the whole alphabet would be my advice.
That's a great way of eliminating the wrong answers - thank you for all your replies
I do wonder about the wisdom of not teaching for the 11+ as they are logic skills that I still use to this day. Good luck.