Instructions
Ananya Raga, Bhaskar Tala, Charu Veena, and Devendra Sur are four musicians.
Each of them started and completed their training as students under each of three Gurus Pandit Meghnath, Ustad Samiran, and Acharya Raghunath between 2013 and 2024, including both the years. Each Guru trains any student for consecutive years only, for a span of 2, 3, or 4 years, with each Guru having a different span. During some of these years, a student may not have trained under these Gurus; however, they never trained under multiple Gurus in the same year.
In none of these years, any of these Gurus trained more than two of these students at the same time. When two students train under the same Guru at the same time, they are referred to as Gurubhai, irrespective of their gender.
The following additional facts are known:
1. Ustad Samiran never trained more than one of these students in the same year.
2. Acharya Raghunath did not train any of these students during 2015-2018, as well as during 2021-24.
3. Ananya and Devendra were never Gurubhai; neither were Bhaskar and Charu. All other pairs of musicians were Gurubhai for exactly 2 years.
4. In 2013, Ananya and Bhaskar started their trainings under Pandit Meghnath and under Ustad Samiran, respectively.
Question 21.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
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Now, if we look at the table, we can see that AR is training for only 4 years, with two years each, separated by a few years. Therefore, the span of AR must be 2 years because we know that he is not teaching continuously for 3 or 4 years.
We are also given that A, D and B, C were never Gurubhai, and all the other pairs were Gurubhai for exactly 2 years. Therefore, there must be two years each of {A, B}, {A, C}, {B, D}, and {C, D} with classes together. We have already completed the 2 years of {A, B} and {C, D}, so the ones left are two years of {A, C} and {B, D}. We know that the US did not take classes of 2 students together, and we have already filled the schedule of AR, so the only one left is PM, and he must have the other two left.
There cannot be any gap in the case of US, and in 2016, the only possibility is D as A, C were having classes with PM, and B already had his classes with US. D had classes from 2016 to 2018. In 2019, A, B and D were already having classes, so the only possibility is for C to have classes with US from 2019 to 2021, and finally A will have his classes from 2022 to 2024 with US, as he is the only person left to have classes with US.
Statement 1) Charu was training under Ustad Samiran in 2018. This is false as she was training under Pandit Meghnath in 2018.
