How many such pairs of letters are there in the word STAINLESS each of which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word STAINLESS each of which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?

Ques:- How many such pairs of letters are there in the word STAINLESS each of which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?
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2 Answers on this Question

  1. the question generally means – to identify the no of words
    in which starting letter and the ending letter must have
    the same position difference as in English alphabet
    here STAINLESS has two such pairs
    ST – in alphabetical order.
    A(INL)E WHICH MEANS A(BCD)E – A and E have three alphabets
    in between.
    in some books i also found that the word is scanned from
    right and not from left.
    my answer would be (a) two

  2. Dear friends i ofcourse confused like you when i come
    across to solve this problem. Really friends its very
    simple if you understand the question clearly. First thing
    is what is mean by “as many as” means its called ‘idiom and
    phrase’ in english and it means “the same number of”. now
    read the question “how many pairs of letters in STAINLESS
    which has same number of letters between them in the word
    as they have in english alphabet”.
    In the alphabetical order, A-Z can be numbered as 1-26.
    In A(INL)E which is same as in the alphabetical order A
    (BCD)E. In both the cases E is in the Fourth position. so
    we got one pair.
    And in ST, there are no letters between them in the word
    stainless. In alphabetical orer from A-Z also there is no
    letters between them..so we got the second pair…
    In STAINLESS it has two pairs ST and AE

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