UPSC Prelims 2004·GS1·polity-and-governance·governance

The details given below relate to the FOUR items that follow: Amit wishes to buy a magazine. Four magazines—one each on politics, sports, science and films are available to choose from. They are edited by Feroz, Gurbaksh, Swami and Ila (not necessarily in that order) and published by Aryan, Bharat, Charan and Dev Publishers (not necessarily in that order). Further, it is given that i) Dev Publishers have published the magazine edited by Feroz. ii) The magazine on politics is published by Aryan Publishers.iii) The magazine on films is edited by Swami and is not published by Charan Publishers. iv) The magazine on science is edited by Ila. For the following four items, select the correct answer: The magazine on films is:

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  1. APublished by Dev Publishers
  2. BPublished by Bharat PublishersCorrect
  3. CEdited by Gurbaksh
  4. DPublished by Charan Publishers

Explanation

To solve this, we can organize the information logically: 1. From statement iv, the science magazine is edited by Ila. 2. From statement iii, the film magazine is edited by Swami and is not published by Charan. 3. From statement i, Feroz edits the magazine published by Dev. Since Swami and Ila are already assigned, Feroz must edit either the politics or sports magazine. 4. From statement ii, the politics magazine is published by Aryan. Since Feroz is linked to Dev, Feroz cannot be editing the politics magazine. Therefore, Feroz must edit the sports magazine published by Dev. 5. This leaves the fourth editor, Gurbaksh, to edit the politics magazine published by Aryan. Now we look at the film magazine: It is edited by Swami. We know the publishers for sports (Dev), politics (Aryan), and science/films (Bharat and Charan). Since statement iii says the film magazine is not published by Charan, it must be published by Bharat. Consequently, the science magazine is published by Charan. Final mapping for the film magazine: Edited by Swami, Published by Bharat. This makes Option B the correct answer.
polity-and-governance: The details given below relate to the FOUR items that follow: Amit wishes to buy a magazine. Four magazines—one each on

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