You intercepted the following message from Boris and Natasha.

25 19 19 30 41 17 15 26 27 41 15 28 18 41 18 29 41 34 22 19 41 27 15 34 22

You do not now the encoding or decoding function but from previous work with Boris and Natasha you know their encoding and decoding functions are always linear and have 1 as the coefficient of x. You also know this message consists of 6 words.

a. How would you decoding the message? Explain your strategy in complete sentences using proper grammar and correct spelling.

b. Identify the decoding function. Show your work.

c. What is the message?

Please help!!

A. First, you should find the number that represents the space, in this case it's 41. Subtract the number you were originally given to represent the space, in this case it's 27.

41 - 27= 14
So, x + 14= y
B. y= x + 14
C. Keep calm and do the math.

Nina1598 Has the correct answer

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I thought the answer for c was, we have to do it calmy ...lol then I realized that was the answer.

Instead of adding you should subtract.

Where did you get 27 from? We weren't given a number to represent the space in the problem.

You are correct. I apologize for the error in my initial response. We were not given a number to represent the space in the message. Therefore, we cannot use the method of subtracting the space number from the other numbers to decode the message.

Without having more information about the encoding function, it is difficult to determine the exact method to decode the message. We may need to try different linear functions or use other techniques such as frequency analysis to decipher the message.

a. To decode the message, we need to find the linear decoding function used by Boris and Natasha. Since we know their functions are always linear and have 1 as the coefficient of x, we can work backwards by finding the inverse of the encoding function.

b. To identify the decoding function, we need to observe the relationship between the encoded message and the original message. We know that the encoded message consists of a sequence of numbers representing the letters of the word, separated by spaces. Let's consider the first word:

25 19 19 30 41

We can notice that these numbers are a sequence of increasing values. From this observation, we can infer that the decoding function involves adding a fixed value to each number to get the original message.

To find this fixed value, we can calculate the difference between each consecutive pair of numbers:

19 - 25 = -6
19 - 19 = 0
30 - 19 = 11
41 - 30 = 11

We can see that the difference -6 is consistent for the first pair, while the difference 11 is consistent for the second pair. Therefore, we can deduce that the fixed value added to each number is -6. This suggests that the decoding function involves subtracting 6 from each number.

c. Now that we know the decoding function, we can apply it to each number in the encoded message to retrieve the original message. Let's decode the entire message:

25 19 19 30 41 17 15 26 27 41 15 28 18 41 18 29 41 34 22 19 41 27 15 34 22

Decode it using the function: subtract 6 from each number:

19 13 13 24 35 11 9 20 21 35 9 22 12 35 12 23 35 28 16 13 35 21 9 28 16

Now we have the decoded message, which consists of a sequence of numbers representing the letters of the original words. To convert these numbers into letters, we can simply refer to a standard alphabetical numbering system, where 'A' is 1, 'B' is 2, and so on.

19 13 13 24 35 11 9 20 21 35 9 22 12 35 12 23 35 28 16 13 35 21 9 28 16

Converting these numbers into letters, we get:

S M M X 35 K I T U 35 I V L 35 L W 35 28 P M 35 U I V W

Hence, the message is: "SMMX KITU IW LW 28PM UIVW".

Note: The original message may contain additional spaces or punctuation, but without further information, it is not possible to determine their exact positions.

The answer that nia1598 has provided is wrong!!!!