There are five persons A, B, C, D and E. One of them is a badminton player, one is a chess player and one is a tennis player. A and D are unmarried ladies who do not take part in any game. None of the ladies play chess or badminton. There is one married couple in the group, in which E is the husband. B is the brother of C and is neither a chess player nor a tennis player.

Who is the wife of E?

Question

Instructions: There are only four members of a family, namely A, B, C and D, and there is only one couple among them. When asked about their relationships, their replies were as follows:
A: “B is my son. D is my mother.”
B: “C is my wife. D is my father.”
C: “D is my mother-in-law. A is my daughter.”
D: “A is my grand-daughter. B is my daughter-in-law.”

Who always speaks the truth?

Answer 1

This is a classic five-person puzzle where we have to work out family and game relationships from the clues given, and then match the real answer against the four listed choices. Let's go option by option after first pinning down who is who.

A: The passage directly states that A is an unmarried lady. An unmarried person cannot be anybody's husband or wife, so A is ruled out as the wife of E.
B: We are told B is "the brother of C". The word brother fixes B as male. E is the husband in the couple, so E's wife has to be female. B being male cannot be E's wife.
D: Just like A, D is named as an unmarried lady in the passage. Being unmarried, D cannot be paired as anyone's wife, so D is also ruled out.
None of the above: Having eliminated A, B and D, the only person left in the group of five who could be E's wife is C. The passage never rules out C from being married, and since C is B's sibling and not stated to be unmarried, C is free to be the one married lady in the group. So the actual wife of E is C, a name that is not offered in the first three choices.

Since C is the true wife of E and C is not listed as choice (1), (2) or (3), we cannot pick any of those three. The only choice left that correctly accounts for this is "None of the above".

Let's summarize:

A and D are unmarried ladies, so both are automatically out of the running for anyone's spouse.
B is called a "brother", which fixes B as male, so B cannot be E's wife.
By elimination, C is the only person left who can be married to E, but C is not one of the given named options.

So the wife of E is C, and since C is not among choices A, B or D, the correct answer is "None of the above".

Answer 2

This is a classic five-person puzzle where we have to work out family and game relationships from the clues given, and then match the real answer against the four listed choices. Let's go option by option after first pinning down who is who.

A: The passage directly states that A is an unmarried lady. An unmarried person cannot be anybody's husband or wife, so A is ruled out as the wife of E.
B: We are told B is "the brother of C". The word brother fixes B as male. E is the husband in the couple, so E's wife has to be female. B being male cannot be E's wife.
D: Just like A, D is named as an unmarried lady in the passage. Being unmarried, D cannot be paired as anyone's wife, so D is also ruled out.
None of the above: Having eliminated A, B and D, the only person left in the group of five who could be E's wife is C. The passage never rules out C from being married, and since C is B's sibling and not stated to be unmarried, C is free to be the one married lady in the group. So the actual wife of E is C, a name that is not offered in the first three choices.

Since C is the true wife of E and C is not listed as choice (1), (2) or (3), we cannot pick any of those three. The only choice left that correctly accounts for this is "None of the above".

Let's summarize:

A and D are unmarried ladies, so both are automatically out of the running for anyone's spouse.
B is called a "brother", which fixes B as male, so B cannot be E's wife.
By elimination, C is the only person left who can be married to E, but C is not one of the given named options.

So the wife of E is C, and since C is not among choices A, B or D, the correct answer is "None of the above".

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The Correct Option is D

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