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Which of the following statements is true regarding H?

  • A.The one who is second to the right of H is a female.
  • B.H is facing the centre.
  • C.H is a male.
  • D.The immediate neighbours of H are facing outside.
  • E.None is true

Answer: A

Correct answer: The one who is second to the right of H is a female.

Five face the centre and three face outward, so “left” and “right” must be read from each person’s own seat: for someone facing the centre the left is clockwise, for someone facing outward it is anticlockwise.

C faces the centre, which fixes E three seats away; F three to E’s left only works if E faces outward, and B is then four seats from F, opposite. Since E’s neighbours face the centre and D’s face outward, D can only sit where one of his neighbours is E - and A three to D’s right then falls into a single seat. The sex constraints do the rest: B’s neighbours are female, E’s are male, and G may have no female beside him.

Clockwise the table reads C (m, centre) → A (m, outward) → F (f, centre) → H (f, outward) → D (m, centre) → E (f, outward) → B (m, centre) → G (f, centre) - four of each sex, and A, H and E the three facing outward.

H faces outward, so her right is clockwise: two seats that way gives D and then E, who is female - so that statement is true. The others fail: H faces outward, not the centre; H is female, not male; and her neighbours F and D both face the centre.

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