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Old 11th September 2007, 11:55 AM
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Four men and four women are shipwrecked on a desert island. Eventually
each one falls in love with one another, and is himself loved by one
person.

John falls in love with a girl who is in love with Jim.
Arthur loves a girl who loves the man who loves Ellen.
Mary is loved by the man who is loved by the girl who is loved by Bruce.
Gloria hates Bruce and is hated by the man whom Hazel loves.

Who loves Arthur and who loves whom?

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You do have our unconditional love & support .

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hi all of u if u have any problem then ask me
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Four men and four women are shipwrecked on a desert island. Eventually
each one falls in love with one another, and is himself loved by one
person.

John falls in love with a girl who is in love with Jim.
Arthur loves a girl who loves the man who loves Ellen.
Mary is loved by the man who is loved by the girl who is loved by Bruce.
Gloria hates Bruce and is hated by the man whom Hazel loves.

Who loves Arthur and who loves whom?

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Gloria loves Arthur!!

Well my answers are somewhat like this

Ellen loves Jim
John loves Ellen
Bruce loves Mary
Arthur loves Hazel
Hazel loves John
Jim loves Gloria
Mary loves Bruce

Are these right Biggie?
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Old 15th September 2007, 05:26 PM
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Aashima,

Right or wrong does not matter . Could you please post your approach to the problem?

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Right or wrong does not matter . Could you please post your approach to the problem?

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Well it was pretty complex rather confusing. I started off in a tabular manner moving stepwise as per the given hints. There came a turn where it was manadatory for Mary to be loved by the person she loves otherwise all the given hints would be disordered!
This note was the first link in relations and it becomes apparantly easier to solve once you figure out a single link.

Though there may be many other approaches too.
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