Discussion
What is E’s position with respect to B?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Third to the left
Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix B; A sits three to B’s right, F four beyond A, K four to B’s left and D three to K’s left. Of the four seats left, C three to H’s right fits in only one way, and E two to G’s left then fills the last two. Clockwise the circle reads B → G → F → E → K → C → A → D → H.
E sits three seats clockwise of B, which is three seats to B’s left: G, F, then E. Counting three to B’s right instead - anticlockwise - would reach H, D and A. In a circle of nine the two counts do not meet, so the direction matters: E is third to B’s left (equivalently sixth to her right).
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