Caesar Cipher III Exploration Questions
You are under pressure to break your enemy's code. You know that the letters have been encoded as numbers using:
A B C D ... Z |
0 1 2 3 ... 25 |
and that the numbers were then altered using
New = (A * old + B) mod 26.
You have a message coded by the enemy coding machine. Your secret network of
spies has found out that the message is part of a nursery rhyme. Your job is to look at the coded
text and try to guess what numbers the enemy is using
for A and B. Good luck!
Think carefully about what guesses to make for A and B. Look at the coded phrase
and think about patterns.
There is scratch space
below for you to record your ideas. The students
who guess the A and B correctly in the shortest amount of time win!
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