Discussion

Answer: D

Correct answer: The Chairman of the company sits to the immediate left of the 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).

The Managing Director is C and the Chairman is E, who sits in the next seat clockwise - C’s immediate left - so that statement holds. Of the others: the Group Leader F and the Vice President G are four seats apart; G sits second to the left of D, not the right; the Group Leader and the Company Secretary are not neighbours; and two seats to D’s left is the Vice President, not the Group Leader.