By rearranging the letters of ‘RESTAURANT’, we can get a meaningful English word. Each letter is denoted with a different number as shown in the table below. The combination of the numbers for the word, which is not meaningful, is _____.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
Given word: RESTAURANT
Number mapping:
1-R, 2-E, 3-S, 4-T, 5-A, 6-U, 7-R, 8-A, 9-N, 10-T
Check options:
1 → 9,5,4,6,7,2 → N A T U R E → NATURE (meaningful)
2 → 7,2,4,6,1,9 → R E T U R N → RETURN (meaningful)
3 → 9,8,7,1,5,4,2,3 → N A R R A T E S → NARRATES (meaningful)
4 → 6,10,7,2,5 → U T R E A → No meaningful word
Therefore, the combination which is not meaningful is Option 4.