Three friends — Aarav, Beena, Chetan — sit on a bench left to right
Three friends — Aarav, Beena, Chetan — sit on a bench left to right. Known: (1) Aarav is not on the far left. (2) Beena is not on the far right. Dev says these two clues fully fix the seating order — Chetan is on the far left. His sister says more than one order is still possible. Who is right?
Who do you think is right? Pick one.
The answer: His sister is right, more than one order is still possible
Why
Dev correctly used clue (1) to figure out that Chetan or Beena must be on the far left, since Aarav is ruled out — a solid first step. Where the reasoning stops too early is not checking whether clue (2) narrows this down any further. Clue (2) only rules out Beena from the far RIGHT — it says nothing at all about the far LEFT, so Beena is still just as free to sit on the far left as Chetan is. Test it: list every order that fits both clues — Chetan-Beena-Aarav fits (Aarav not leftmost ✓, Beena not rightmost ✓), and Beena-Chetan-Aarav also fits (Aarav not leftmost ✓, Beena not rightmost ✓, since Beena is leftmost here, not rightmost) — two different orders both satisfy every clue given. His sister is right: with only these two clues, more than one seating order is still possible — a clue that rules something out on one side does not automatically say anything about the other side.
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