Discussion

Answer: E

Correct answer: B-Managing Director

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

Place the Managing Director; A sits three to his right, and H three the other way, since only two people separate them. The Manager, two seats to E’s left, must have the Group Leader and the Financial Advisor on either side - and of the three seats that allows, only one leaves room for B three seats to the Financial Advisor’s left. That fixes H as the Manager and E beside the Managing Director. The Vice President may sit next to neither the Managing Director nor A or H, which leaves a single seat, and the Company Secretary must be beside him. A is not the Chairman, so A is President and E the Chairman - and C then takes the seat on the Chairman’s right, with F kept clear of A and G clear of the Manager.

Clockwise the table reads C (Managing Director) → E (Chairman) → F (Group Leader) → H (Manager) → D (Financial Advisor) → A (President) → G (Vice President) → B (Company Secretary).

In F–Chairman, G–President, D–Manager and A–Financial Advisor, each person is paired with the post held by the colleague on their immediate right. B–Managing Director breaks the pattern: C, the Managing Director, sits on B’s left.