Section 2 - Q8 Question Find the next term in this series: CDXW, FGUT,IJRQ,LMON? OPKL
ANSWER : OPLK
Answers
CDXW, FGUT, IJRQ, LMON. ?
? = OPKL
QUESTION:
The correct question should be:
Find the next term in this series: CDXW, FGUT, IJRQ, LMON,?
ANSWER:
The next term in the given series will be OPLK.
Given,
Series:
CDXW, FGUT, IJRQ, LMON,?
To find,
Next term in series.
Solution,
To find the next term of the given series, we need to first observe the pattern of the series.
The given series here is,
CDXW, FGUT, IJRQ, LMON.
It can be observed that the pattern being followed in the given series is that the letters of the terms are increasing or decreasing based on their position in the English alphabet. Positions of a few of the letters, for example, are given below.
A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4, E - 5, ..., M - 13, ..., Z - 26.
Now, the 1st and 2nd letters of a particular term are increased by 3, and the 3rd and 4th letters of the same term are decreased by 3, to make the next term. For example,
For the first term CDXW, positions are,
C - 3
D - 4
X - 24
W -23
So, the next term is FGUT
F - 6 (= 3 + 3) since C is 3
G - 7 (= 4 + 3) since D is 4
U - 21 (= 24 - 3) since X is 23
T - 20 (= 23 - 3) since W is 24.
A similar pattern is being followed for all other terms. Thus, since the last term given is LMON. The next term can be found as follows.
L - 12
M - 13
O - 15
N - 14
So, the next term should be OPLK,
O - 15 (12 + 3) since L is 12
P - 16 (13 + 3) since M is 13
L - 12 (15 - 3) since O is 15
K - 11 (14 - 3) since N is 14.
⇒ The next term: OPLK.
Therefore, the next term in the given series will be OPLK.