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2007 AMC 10B Question 9

AMC10 · 2007 AMC 10B

Question 9

A cryptographic code is designed as follows. The first time a letter appears in a given message it is replaced by the letter that is $1$ place to its right in the alphabet (assuming that the letter A is one place to the right of the letter Z). The second time this same letter appears in the given message, it is replaced by the letter that is $1+2$ places to the right, the third time it is replaced by the letter that is $1+2+3$ places to the right, and so on. For example, with this code the word “banana” becomes “cbodqg”. What letter will replace the last letter s in the message

“Lee’s sis is a Mississippi miss, Chriss!”?
  1. $g$
  2. $h$
  3. $o$
  4. $s$
  5. $t$