Saqueed and khajid are gamblers.They love betting on final team rankings in cricket tournaments.LPI cricket tournament is their favourite.A total of 5 teams are participating in this year LPI(A,B,C,D,E).Before the tournament begins Sajeed and Majeed get the result.According to the sajeed the result should be A,B,C,D,E and according to Majeed the ranking should be D,A,E,C,B.At the end of tournament it turned out that Sajid has not predicted even a single rank correctly nor had he pridected the correct ordering of any pair of consecutive teams.On the other hand, Majeed had predicted the rankings of two teams correctly and he has also predicted ordering of two pairs of consecutive teams.
Which team won LPI tournament this year?
A)A
B)B
C)E
D)None of the above
Which team was ranked one behind B?
A)A
B)C
C)D
D)None of the above

sajeed has figured the order and the rankings both wrong.so ABCDE, ranks are wrong and so are the ordering of pairs.majeed has figured 2 ranks correctly .these two should be consecutive, otherwise the other correctly ordered pair would result in a3rd correct prediction.and the correct ranks should be at either ends. ie top or bottomranks,otherwise the other correctly ordered pair would result in a 3rd correct prediction.so either the DA_ _ _ or _ _ _CB is correct.in top case we can have correct ordering of 2 pairs EC or CB that are displaced by 1 positionbut both of DACBE, DABEC violates the fact that sajeed is wrong.in bottom case we have,EDACB and AEDCB .
AEDCB is wrong as A can't be in position 1.
so EDACB is the correct answer
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