**Direction:** Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions. When a word and a number rearrangement machine is given an input line of words and numbers, it arranges them following a rule. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement. **Input:** 7621 BRAVE 3845 TOUCH 6482 DREAM 5173 SHINE 8274 GLOW **Step I:** 49730 AEBRV 9954 OUCHT 36591 AEDMR 25282 EIHNS 64383 OGLW **Step II:** 4379 BFAQU 4599 PVBGS 61359 BFCLQ 22258 FJGMR 46833 PFKV **Step III:** 419 BFQ 423 PVBGS 618 BFCLQ 613 FJGMR 186 PFKV **Step IV:** 14 BFQ 9 BGPSV 15 BCFLQ 10 FGJMR 15 FKPV **Step V:** 17 14 20 15 11 Step V is the last step for the above input. Find out the appropriate steps for the following input. **Input:** 8536 GRACE 2947 MOVIE 6183 BLEND 7312 SMILE 4765 POWER What is the third number from the left in Step II?

### Concept & Logic To solve this Machine Input-Output problem, we must first decode the operations applied to the numbers and words at each step based on the provided illustration. **Number Logic:** * **Step I:** Square the first digit of the input number. Add 109 to the remaining three digits. Concatenate both results. (e.g., $7621 \rightarrow 7^2 = 49$; $621 + 109 = 730 \rightarrow 49730$) * **Step II:** Extract all even digits and sort them in ascending order, followed by all odd digits sorted in ascending order. (Leading zeros are dropped). **Word Logic:** * **Step I:** Rearrange letters so vowels appear first alphabetically, followed by consonants alphabetically. * **Step II:** Vowels are shifted to the next letter (+1), and consonants to the previous letter (-1). ### Step-by-Step Solution We need to find the third number from the left in Step II. The third number in the Input is **6183**. 1. **Step I for 6183:** * First digit squared: $6^2 = 36$ * Remaining digits + 109: $183 + 109 = 292$ * Step I Number: **36292** 2. **Step II for 36292:** * Identify even digits: 6, 2, 2. Sorted: 2, 2, 6. * Identify odd digits: 3, 9. Sorted: 3, 9. * Concatenate sorted evens and odds: **22639** ### Exam Strategy & Shortcut For specific positional questions, do not evaluate the entire sequence for all elements. Trace only the specific element requested (the 3rd number) through the required steps (Input $\rightarrow$ Step I $\rightarrow$ Step II) to save time. ### Common Pitfall A common mistake in Step II is completely sorting all digits indiscriminately, failing to realize that even digits are grouped before odd digits. ### Final Answer Therefore, the correct answer is **22639**.