UPSC CSE Prelims 2018
The problem employs a direct letter-to-digit substitution coding scheme. The given information establishes the following mappings:
To determine the code for HAMAM, we extract the respective digit for each letter based on the established scheme:
Applying these substitutions to the word HAMAM sequentially:
Therefore, HAMAM is coded as 92323.
Options 1 (92233), 3 (93322), and 4 (93232) do not correspond to the unique letter-to-digit mapping derived from the provided coding examples. These options result from an incorrect application of the established substitution rules for the letters H, A, and M.