Five students Radha, Sujit, Mihir, Anshul and Vikas have a total of five books on the subjects of Accountancy, Business Studies, Mathematics, Economics and English, written by authors Jain, Kohli, Das, Sharma and Edwin. Each student has only one book on one of the five subjects.

Jain is the author of the Accountancy book, which is not owned by Vikas or Radha.

Anshul owns the book written by Edwin.

Mihir owns the Mathematics book.

Vikas has the English book, which is not written by Kohli.

The Economics books is written by Sharma.

Identify the author of the Business Studies book.

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Five students - Radha, Sujit, Mihir, Anshul and Vikas.

Five books - on the subjects of Accountancy, Business Studies, Mathematics, Economics and English

Authors - Jain, Kohli, Das, Sharma and Edwin.

Jain is the author of the Accountancy book, which is not owned by Vikas or Radha.
Anshul owns the book written by Edwin.
Mihir owns the Mathematics book.
Vikas has the English book, which is not written by Kohli.
The Economics books is written by Sharma.

From the above table, it is clear that Kohli is the author of Mathematics book and Anshul have Business Studies book, whose author is Edwin.

So, Edwin is the author of the Business Studies book.

Hence, ‘Edwin’ is the correct answer.