Question

The question is based on a set of conditions. Choose the response that most accurately and completely answer the question.

At the snack café at a party, Ali, Bina, Champak and Diya are eating cookies. There are five kinds of cookies to choose from – chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and raisin cookies. Each of these four people eats at least two kinds of cookies. Their choices are governed by the following rules:

At most two of them eat oatmeal cookies
At least two of them eat sugar cookies
Ali does not eat any sugar cookies
Bina and Champak do not eat the same type of cookies Bina eats chocolate chip cookies
Champak eats sugar cookies
No one eats both raisin cookies and sugar cookies
If someone eats raisin cookies, they also eat peanut butter cookies

Which cookie type could be eaten by none of the people?

विकल्प

• Chocolate chip

• Oatmeal

• Sugar

• Raisin

Answer 1

Raisin

Explanation:

After satisfying all the given conditions, we will get the following table. 

Persons	Cookies
	Chocolate	Oatmeal	Sugar	Peanut	Raisin
Ali			×
Bina	√		×
Champak	×		√		×
Diya			√		×

One of the possible combination is

Persons	Cookies
	Chocolate	Oatmeal	Sugar	Peanut	Raisin
Ali	√	√	×		×
Bina	√	√	×		×
Champak	×		√	√	×
Diya			√	√	×

`therefore` Raisin cookies could be eaten by none of the people.