Given statements and their codes are as follows:
(I) Men are very busy - 1234
(II) Busy persons need encouragement - 4567
(III) Encouragement is very important - 3589
(IV) Important persons are rare - 2680
i. In second (II) and third (III) sentences, common word is 'encouragement' and common code no. is '5'. Hence, number 5 stands for encouragement.
ii. In first (I) and fourth (IV) sentences, the common word is 'are', hence 'are' stands for '2' from first (I) and third (III) sentences, 'very' stand for '3' from first (I) and second (II) sentences, 'busy' stands for '4'. Hence, we get from first sentence 'Men stand for '1' similarly 'needs' stand for '7'. From this, we conclude that 'Men need encouragement' will be coded as '1 5 7'.