Amit wishes to buy a magazine. Four magazinesone 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 Pub

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Q: 100 (IAS/2004)

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 items, select the correct answer:
The magazine on films is:

question_subject: 

Logic/Reasoning

question_exam: 

IAS

stats: 

0,1,3,2,1,1,0

keywords: 

{'magazine': [0, 0, 4, 0], 'magazines': [0, 0, 5, 2], 'bharat publishers': [0, 0, 3, 0], 'aryan publishers': [0, 0, 4, 0], 'charan publishers': [0, 0, 4, 0], 'dev publishers': [0, 0, 4, 0], 'films': [0, 0, 5, 9], 'bharat': [0, 0, 5, 1], 'charan': [0, 0, 4, 0], 'aryan': [0, 0, 5, 1], 'politics': [7, 0, 4, 5]}

The question involves complex relationships between four magazines, their editors, subjects, and publishers. The options to the question suggest possible associations for the magazine on films.

Option 1 suggests it is published by Dev Publishers. However, Dev Publishers published the magazine edited by Feroz (from Condition i), not the one edited by Swami (Condition iii related to Films magazine). Hence option 1 is incorrect.

Option 2 states it is published by Bharat Publishers. This option doesn`t conflict with any given conditions and is the correct answer.

Option 3 proposes it is edited by Gurbaksh. This contradicts condition iii that clearly states the film magazine is edited by Swami. So, option 3 is incorrect.

Option 4 suggests it is published by Charan Publishers. However, from condition iii we know the films magazine is not published by Charan Publishers. So, this option is also false.

Therefore, the magazine on films is published by Bharat Publishers.