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­Zeno's Unfinished Furniture sells exactly five types of furniture-footstools,chutches, sideboards, tables, and vanities. Irene buys just four items, each of a different type, and each made entirely of one kind of wood-maple, oak, pine, or rosewood. The following conditions govern Irene's purchases:

Any vanity she buys is maple.
Any rosewood item she buys is a sideboard.
If she buys a vanity, she does not buy a footstool.
If lrene buys a footstool, she also buys a table made of the same wood.
Irene does not buy an oak table.
Exactly two of the items she buys are made of the same kind of wood as each other.

If Irene does not buy an item made of maple, then each of the following must be true EXCEPT:

(A) Irene buys a footstool.
(B) Irene buys a pine hutch.
(C) Irene buys a rosewood sideboard.
(D) Irene buys exactly one item made of oak.
(E) Irene buys exactly two items made of pine.


If she buys a vanity, she does not buy a footstool.

This means she buys only one of vanity and footstool. So she buys the other 3 for sure.

Vanity/Footstool
Hutch
Sideboard
Table


If Irene does not buy an item made of maple
Any vanity she buys is maple.


This means she does not buy vanity and must buy Footstool.

Footstool
Hutch
Sideboard
Table

Exactly two of the items she buys are made of the same kind of wood as each other.
If lrene buys a footstool, she also buys a table made of the same wood.


No maple but exactly 2 of the 4 items she buys have the same wood. This means she buys stuff made of all remaining 3 wood types - pine, oak and rosewood. With one wood, she buys 2 items - Footstool and table
So Hutch and sideboard use different woods.

Any rosewood item she buys is a sideboard.
Irene does not buy an oak table.


Footstool
Hutch
Sideboard - rosewood
Table - x oak


So

Footstool - Pine
Hutch - Oak
Sideboard - rosewood
Table - Pine

Answer (B)
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