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: 101 (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 politics is :

question_subject: 

Logic/Reasoning

question_exam: 

IAS

stats: 

0,2,4,2,2,2,0

keywords: 

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

The correct answer is option 2, which suggests that the magazine on politics is edited by Gurbaksh. Let`s explain why the other options are incorrect.

Option 1: The magazine on politics cannot be edited by Ila because we know from point (iv) that Ila is the editor of the science magazine.

Option 3: The magazine on politics is not published by Dev Publishers. Given in point (i), Dev Publishers have published the magazine edited by Feroz. As we already know that Ila edits the science magazine and assuming no editor edits more than one magazine, the politics magazine isn`t published by Dev Publishers.

Option 4: The magazine on politics cannot be published by Charan Publishers as no specific information linking Charan Publishers to the politics magazine was provided in this question.

Therefore, the only remaining choice for the editor of the politics magazine is Gurbaksh, making option 2 the correct answer.