1 QUESTION OF ANALYTICAL REASONING,HELP ME SOLVING THIS

EACH OF 5 TRADERS STEEL,TIMBER,BOOT,WOOD &  COTTON SENT A CONSIGNMENT OF GOODS TO ONE OF THE OTHERS ,NONE SENDINGV TO AND RECEIVING  FROM  THE SAME PERSON .

STEEL'S CONSIGNMENT WENT TO WOOD.   WOOD SENT BOOTS TO THE SENDER OF TIMBER.    TIMBER RECEICVED STEEL,AND THE SENDER OF WOOD HAD THE NAME OF THE COMMODITY RECVEIVED BY BOOT.

1. BOOT RECEIVED A  CONSIGNMENT OF
a.wood            b.timber               c.steel               d.cotton

2.WHO  RECEIVED NEITHER TIMBER NOR STEEL?
a.boot  b.timber   c.wood
1.a          2.b                 3.c                  4. a&c

3. wood received  a consignment   of  cotton   that was sent by
a.steel                b.timber              c.boot             d.  cotton

4. if steel sent  neither timber nor wood ,he sent a consignment  of
a. cotton               b. boot               c.  timber           d. wood

5.if the consignment  by  timber was misplaced the goods  lost were
a.cotton             b.boots                  c.wood                     d.steel

The question can be solved
The question can be solved only if it is assumed (better if it was mentioned) that each consignment is different.

The way I attempted:

5 Suppliers, 5 Consignments and 5 Buyers. I tried to put them in array with left side containing the name of the supplier, right side with the name of the buyer and consignment in the middle showing from where to where.

statement1  STEEL'S CONSIGNMENT WENT TO WOOD
                     STEEL ----------                  -----------> WOOD

 statement2   WOOD SENT BOOTS TO THE SENDER OF TIMBER
               WOOD ----------               -----------> (sender of timber)

 statement3    TIMBER RECEICVED STEEL   
                                    --------------   STEEL  -----------> TIMBER

statement4   THE SENDER OF WOOD HAD THE NAME OF THE COMMODITY RECVEIVED BY BOOT
                            --------------           -----------> BOOT

 

Last Line 5               --------------           ----------->

From the above its quite obvious the sender of timber in line 2 can either be cotton/steel as in RHS we already have BOOT, TIMBER and WOOD.
From line 1 steel send consignment to WOOD so in line 2 WOOD send consignment to COTTON
                   WOOD ----------                  -----------> COTTON
Thus line 5 receiver end (RHS) contains STEEL
                               --------------           -----------> STEEL

 

So we have

STEEL ----------         -----------> WOOD
WOOD ----------         -----------> COTTON
        ---------- STEEL -----------> TIMBER
        ----------          -----------> BOOT
        ----------           -----------> STEEL

 

WOOD as  a commodity cant be in first 3 lines and from statement 4 its clear WOOD is the commodity of 5th line.

Now try to fill up all the values with the simple logic of all lines have different values and each value is present once in a column.

 

The final result

STEEL ----------  COTTON -----------> WOOD
WOOD ----------  BOOT    -----------> COTTON
BOOT------------- STEEL   -----------> TIMBER
COTTON -------- TIMBER--------------> BOOT
TIMBER----------   WOOD  -----------> STEEL

 

 

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