Five students Kunal, Bhumi, Mridula, Vikas and Gitika study in five different…
2023
Five students Kunal, Bhumi, Mridula, Vikas and Gitika study in five different schools T, U, V, W and X and they like five different colours red, yellow, blue, pink and green. Bhumi is from school ‘X’ and she does not like pink or red colour. Student who likes green colour is from school ‘T’. Kunal likes blue colour. Mridula is neither from school ‘T’ nor from ‘W’. Vikas is not from school ‘W’ and likes red colour. Who is from school ‘V’ and which colour he/she likes?
- A.
Vikas – Red
- B.
Gitika – Yellow
- C.
Kunal – Green
- D.
Mridula – Blue
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Correct answer: A
Students: Kunal, Bhumi, Mridula, Vikas, Gitika
Schools: T, U, V, W, X
Colours: red, yellow, blue, pink, green
Bhumi → school X; Bhumi ≠ pink, ≠ red.
The student who likes green is from school T.
Kunal → blue.
Mridula ≠ T, ≠ W.
Vikas ≠ W and Vikas → red.
Step 1 — Fix obvious colours and schools
Bhumi is in X and cannot be pink/red/green (green must be T and Bhumi is X). Blue and red are taken by Kunal and Vikas, so Bhumi must be yellow.
⇒ Bhumi = X, yellow.The green → T constraint: Kunal is blue, Vikas is red, Bhumi is X — so green cannot be any of them. Mridula cannot be T (given). Therefore the only remaining student for green/T is Gitika.
⇒ Gitika = T, green.
Step 2 — Place Kunal
Mridula ≠ W and Vikas ≠ W, so the only student who can be in W is Kunal.
⇒ Kunal = W, blue.
Step 3 — Remaining assignments
Remaining schools: U and V for Mridula and Vikas.
Remaining colour (besides red, blue, yellow, green) is pink, so Mridula = pink and Vikas = red (already known).
Final check — ambiguity
All given clues are satisfied, but there is no clue that distinguishes whether Mridula is in U and Vikas in V, or Mridula in V and Vikas in U. Both assignments fit every constraint.
So the problem does not uniquely determine who is from school V. There are two valid possibilities:
Possibility A: School V = Vikas, and he likes red.
Possibility B: School V = Mridula, and she likes pink.
Conclusion: With the information provided the answer is ambiguous — school V could belong either to Vikas (red) or to Mridula (pink). If there is an extra clue (for example “Vikas is from U” or “Mridula is from V”), that would make the assignment unique.