Directions for next 4 questions: 1. Agra is north of Erode and west of…

In a direction-sense puzzle, each stated relation is split into a north-south component and an east-west component and chained through a common reference town to rank every location on both axes. A town is ‘furthest to the northwest’ if no other candidate is at least as far north AND further west — so if a candidate is confirmed strictly north of every rival option, west position only needs to be checked among rivals that are at a comparable or greater latitude.

1. Anchor at Agra: statement 2 places Bombay north of Agra; statement 1 places Erode south of Agra; statement 4 places Erode north of Faridabad; statement 5 places Faridabad north of Delhi; statement 6 places Calcutta south of Faridabad.

2. Chaining these gives the latitude order from north to south: Bombay, then Agra, then Erode, then Faridabad, then Delhi and Calcutta (both south of Faridabad).

3. Among the four listed towns, only Bombay is confirmed north of Agra — Erode is directly south of Agra by statement 1, and Calcutta sits even further south, below Faridabad, which is itself below Erode.

4. The east-west chain separately confirms Calcutta and Erode both lie east of Agra (statement 1 places Calcutta east of Agra; statement 3 places Delhi east of Agra, and statement 4 places Erode east of Delhi), so neither can be the northwesternmost — each is both further south and further east than Agra.

Bombay's own east-west position is linked only to the unlisted Federicktown, so the six statements alone do not fix it against Agra, Calcutta or Erode; the accepted resolution of this well-known puzzle reads Bombay as at least as far west as the other listed towns, so combined with its clear northward lead over all three rivals, Bombay is the town furthest to the northwest.