In each of the following questions, a specific alphabetic coding pattern has been applied to the first word to form the second word. Identify the same coding logic and apply it to the third word to determine the correct answer from the given options. COUNTRY : FRXQWUB :: EXAMINE : ?

Correct — B.
Rule: every letter moves 3 places forward, staying in its own position.

COUNTRY → FRXQWUB: C→F, O→R, U→X, N→Q, T→W, R→U.
The last letter runs past Z: Y + 3 = B.

EXAMINE: E→H, X→A (past Z), A→D, M→P.
Then I→L, N→Q, E→H.

That spells HADPLQH → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  HAPDLQH — HAPDLQH swaps the third and fourth letters. A + 3 = D comes before M + 3 = P, so the order must be D, P.
• (c)
  HAHPLDQ — HAHPLDQ goes wrong at the third letter: A + 3 is D, not H. Its last two letters, DQ, should be Q and H.
• (d)
  GBQDVWB — GBQDVWB fails at once: E + 3 is H, not G. Its letters keep no single shift from EXAMINE.

A letter-shift code moves every letter by the same number of places without reordering them. Find the shift from the first pair: C to F is +3, and every other letter agrees.

The hazard is the end of the alphabet. Y + 3 and X + 3 both run past Z, so count on from A: Y → Z, A, B and X → Y, Z, A.

Key facts

• COUNTRY → FRXQWUB and EXAMINE → HADPLQH are both +3 on every letter.
• Past Z, counting restarts at A: X + 3 = A and Y + 3 = B.
• A uniform shift keeps the word's letter order.

Common traps

• Writing the right letters in the wrong order, as in HAPDLQH
• Stopping at X + 3 = 27 instead of wrapping to A

No directly related past PYQ was found.