Question

Four married couples competed in a singing competition. Each couple had a unique team name. Points scored by the teams were 2, 4, 6 and 8. The 'Sweet Couple' won 2 points. The 'Bindas Singers' won two more points than Laxman's team. Mukesh's team won four points more than Lina's team, but Lina's team didn't score the least amount of points. 'Just Singing' won 6 points. Waheda wasn't on the team called 'New Singers'. Sanjeev's team won 4 points. Divya wasn't on the 'Bindas Singers' team. Tapas and Sania were on the same team, but it wasn't the 'Sweet Couple'.

The combination which has the couples rightly paired is:

• A. Mukesh, Lina
• B. Mukesh, Waheda
• C. Sanjeev, Divya
• D. Sanjeev, Lina

Hint:

Work out the full team-score table first, then use the clue that Lina's team scored four less than Mukesh's team to see which man Lina actually sits with.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Instead of re-deriving the whole table, this question can be answered by testing each option against the strongest available clue, the four-point gap between Mukesh's team and Lina's team.

1. Mukesh, Lina: if Mukesh and Lina were a couple, they would be on the same team, so their team scores would be equal, not four apart. This contradicts the clue directly, so this option is wrong.
2. Mukesh, Waheda: Waheda is ruled out as Mukesh's partner separately, since Waheda cannot be on New Singers, and Mukesh's team (once the scores are worked out) is New Singers. So this is wrong too.
3. Sanjeev, Divya: Sanjeev's team scores 4 points, which turns out to be Bindas Singers, and Divya is explicitly excluded from Bindas Singers by one of the clues, so Divya cannot be Sanjeev's partner.
4. Sanjeev, Lina: working out the scores shows Bindas Singers = 4 points, matching Sanjeev directly, and separately Lina's team (four less than Mukesh's team of 8) also comes out to 4 points. Since both point to the same 4 point team, Sanjeev and Lina must be the couple sharing it.

So elimination across all four options leaves only one couple standing.

Let's summarize:

• Mukesh cannot be paired with Lina, since that would erase the four-point gap between their teams.
• Waheda is separately fixed away from Mukesh's team (New Singers), and Divya is separately fixed away from Sanjeev's team (Bindas Singers).
• That leaves Sanjeev and Lina as the only couple that fits every clue.

Thus the correctly paired couple is Sanjeev and Lina.