Linear Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: G and B

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

C stands third, so the only people to his left are G and B.

Answer: A

Correct answer: E is to the immediate left of D

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

E stands to D’s right, not his left, so that statement is not true. The others hold: A is at the right-hand end, G is immediately left of B, and F is second to D’s right.

Answer: B

Correct answer: C and G

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

B stands second, with G on one side and C on the other.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Extreme right

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

A occupies the seventh and last place in the row - the extreme right.

Answer: B

Correct answer: N

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

O faces north, so her right is east. Three places that way - P, Q, then N - brings us to the far end of the ladies’ row.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Q

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

After the three moves, B stands where E did, E where Q did and Q where B did. The person facing O is then B; and B, being a man, has his left to the east, where two places along sits Q in her new seat.

Answer: D

Correct answer: AM

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

A stands at the eastern end of the men’s row and M at the western end of the ladies’ row, so A and M occupy opposite corners. C and N are the other such pair; the rest sit directly facing or well within the rows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

After the exchanges, two places to P’s right brings us to B in the ladies’ row; the person facing her is Q, now in the men’s row. Q faces south, so her right is west, and two places that way is A.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

N stands at the eastern end of the ladies’ row, and the man directly facing her is A.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Fargo and Mercedes

Fiat stands at one end with Ambassador three places to its right; Fargo is four to Fiat’s right and Cadillac next beyond it. Maruti must lie between Ambassador and Bedford, which fills the two remaining places near the Fiat end, and Mercedes takes the last. From left to right the line reads Fiat, Bedford, Maruti, Ambassador, Fargo, Cadillac, Mercedes.

Cadillac stands sixth, with Fargo on one side and Mercedes on the other.