Difficulty: Medium
Correct Answer: not the electric do touch open wires
Explanation:
Introduction / Context:
This is a word-order coding question rather than a letter-substitution code. The individual words remain unchanged, but their positions are rearranged according to a fixed positional pattern. We are told how one sentence in English is reordered, and we must deduce the exact rule for changing positions. Then we apply the same positional rearrangement to a new sentence to get the coded form. Such questions test your attention to positional patterns rather than symbol substitution.
Given Data / Assumptions:
Concept / Approach:
To solve, we assign position numbers to each word in the original sentence and then track how these positions move in the coded sentence. Once we identify the mapping pattern (for example, 4,1,5,2,6,3,7), we apply this mapping to the second sentence, which has the same number of words (7). There is no need to look at grammar or meaning; only the positions matter. Many reasoning questions apply such deterministic permutations of word positions.
Step-by-Step Solution:
Step 1: Label positions in sentence 1: 1-allow, 2-children, 3-to, 4-play, 5-on, 6-the, 7-ground.
Step 2: Coded sentence 1 is: play allow on children the to ground.
Step 3: Identify new positions: play (4), allow (1), on (5), children (2), the (6), to (3), ground (7).
Step 4: Thus, the positional mapping is: new order = 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7.
Step 5: Now label positions in sentence 2: 1-the, 2-do, 3-open, 4-not, 5-electric, 6-touch, 7-wires.
Step 6: Apply the same mapping: positions 4,1,5,2,6,3,7.
Step 7: Position 4 → not, position 1 → the, position 5 → electric, position 2 → do, position 6 → touch, position 3 → open, position 7 → wires.
Step 8: Combine them to form the coded sentence: "not the electric do touch open wires".
Verification / Alternative check:
To verify, you can reverse the mapping. Starting from "play allow on children the to ground", apply the inverse positional mapping to reconstruct "allow children to play on the ground". Doing so confirms that the mapping 4,1,5,2,6,3,7 was correctly identified. Applying the same to the second sentence again yields "not the electric do touch open wires". Because the mapping works consistently in both directions and across both sentences, the solution is reliable.
Why Other Options Are Wrong:
Option B ("do not touch the electric open wires") has the words in a different order, not matching the pattern 4,1,5,2,6,3,7. Option C similarly rearranges the words in a grammatically natural but code-wise incorrect pattern. Option D ("not the do electric touch open wires") incorrectly places "do" and "electric". Option E begins with "electric" which should occupy the third position under the pattern, not the first. Only Option A reproduces the exact positional permutation that we extracted from the example sentence.
Common Pitfalls:
Students sometimes try to impose grammatical sense on the coded sentence, expecting it to be well-formed English. In coding–decoding questions, however, the coded sentence might or might not form a natural phrase. The important thing is consistent position mapping. Another error is miscounting positions or assuming a different pattern, such as reversing every two words. Carefully numbering each word and methodically checking each mapped position helps avoid such mistakes.
Final Answer:
Therefore, in the required code language, the sentence "the do open not electric touch wires" is written as not the electric do touch open wires.
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