Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
Six friends Anish, Bhavya, Chatur, Dani, Eknath and Farhan are from six different states among Telangana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka and Bihar in no particular order. Further each of the friends is pursuing a different specialization among Marketing, Finance, Operations, Strategy, HR and IT. Additionally it is known that:
1) Anish is pursuing HR
2) Eknath is from West Bengal
3) Person from Telangana is pursuing Strategy
4) Chatur is from Rajasthan and is pursuing Operations
5) Person from Maharashtra is pursuing Finance
6) Bhavya is not pursuing Finance
7) Dani is not from Maharashtra or Bihar
8) Eknath and Bhavya are not pursuing Marketing
Which specialization is Dani pursuing?
Solution
Let us try to tabulate the given information.
From the given hints we can form a partially filled table as shown below.
Now from statement 5 we know that the person from Maharashtra is pursuing Finance.
It is given that Bhavya is not pursuing Finance and Dani is not from Maharashtra.
From this we can infer that Farhan is from Maharashtra and is pursuing Finance.
Now we know that Eknath and Bhavya are not pursuing Marketing.
This means that Dani is pursuing Marketing.
Now we can conclude that Bhavya is from Telangana and is pursuing Strategy.
Now the completely filled table will be as shown below.
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