Question

This question is based on the following 3-letter words.

RAT DOT FRY CUT

If in each of the words, each letter is changed to the next letter in the English alphabetical order, how many words thus formed will have no vowel?

• A. Three
• B. None
• C. Two
• D. One

Answer 1

Answer:

D. One

Exactly one word will have no vowel.

Changing each letter to the next one in the English alphabet ($A \rightarrow B, B \rightarrow C$, etc.) gives the following results:

• RAT becomes SBU (Contains vowels U)

• DOT becomes EPU (Contains vowels E and U)

• FRY becomes GSZ (No vowels)

• CUT becomes DVU (Contains vowel U)

Only the newly formed word GSZ contains zero vowels ($A, E, I, O, U$).