Linear Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: B

All eight face the same way, so “right” means the same direction for every clue. E’s birthday falls after May, yet E has neither July nor December, and E cannot be the October person because two people sit between them - so E is September. G sits three places right of the July person and December sits two places right of G, which locks July, G and December into seats n, n+3 and n+5; H sits three places right of the January person. Adding February immediately left of D, one person between E and B, and A beside E but clear of G, exactly one line survives:

1 A (April) · 2 E (September) · 3 C (July) · 4 B (January) · 5 F (October) · 6 G (May) · 7 H (February) · 8 D (December)

G is in seat 6. Counting leftwards, F is first and B, in seat 4, is second to G’s left.

Answer: C

Correct answer: January

All eight face the same way, so “right” means the same direction for every clue. E’s birthday falls after May, yet E has neither July nor December, and E cannot be the October person because two people sit between them - so E is September. G sits three places right of the July person and December sits two places right of G, which locks July, G and December into seats n, n+3 and n+5; H sits three places right of the January person. Adding February immediately left of D, one person between E and B, and A beside E but clear of G, exactly one line survives:

1 A (April) · 2 E (September) · 3 C (July) · 4 B (January) · 5 F (October) · 6 G (May) · 7 H (February) · 8 D (December)

B holds seat 4, and the birthday there is January.

Answer: E

Correct answer: None of these

All eight face the same way, so “right” means the same direction for every clue. E’s birthday falls after May, yet E has neither July nor December, and E cannot be the October person because two people sit between them - so E is September. G sits three places right of the July person and December sits two places right of G, which locks July, G and December into seats n, n+3 and n+5; H sits three places right of the January person. Adding February immediately left of D, one person between E and B, and A beside E but clear of G, exactly one line survives:

1 A (April) · 2 E (September) · 3 C (July) · 4 B (January) · 5 F (October) · 6 G (May) · 7 H (February) · 8 D (December)

E sits in seat 2 and H in seat 7, so after they swap H stands in seat 2. Only A, in seat 1, lies to H’s left - there is no second seat beyond it, so no one sits second to H’s left and the answer is none of these.

Answer: C

Correct answer: P

The dancers face different ways, so each one’s own left and right must be used: a north-facing dancer’s right runs towards seat 9, a south-facing dancer’s right runs back towards seat 1.

Q sits in the middle, seat 5, and W - Jhumur, facing north - is third from the right end, seat 7. The Bihu dancer faces opposite to X, so north, has south-facing neighbours on both sides, sits two places to the Kathak dancer’s right and next to neither the Jhumur nor the Odissi dancer; with Odissi and Kathak together, facing alike and one of them at an end, that forces Odissi to seat 1 and Kathak to seat 2, both facing north, and Bihu to seat 4. Garba sits immediately left of Q, which puts it in seat 6 - so Q faces south. T dances Chhau beside the Giddha dancer with R four places to T’s right, giving T seat 8 facing south and R seat 4. S is neither Kathak nor Giddha and Bhangra lies three to S’s right, settling S in seat 6 and Bhangra in seat 3. V and P sit two apart facing opposite ways and V did not dance Bhangra, so V takes seat 1 and P seat 3, leaving U and X for seats 2 and 9:

1 V Odissi (N) · 2 U Kathak (N) · 3 P Bhangra (S) · 4 R Bihu (N) · 5 Q Lavani (S) · 6 S Garba (S) · 7 W Jhumur (N) · 8 T Chhau (S) · 9 X Giddha (S)

Bhangra sits in seat 3, and that dancer is P.

Answer: D

Correct answer: The one who performed Chhau dance

The dancers face different ways, so each one’s own left and right must be used: a north-facing dancer’s right runs towards seat 9, a south-facing dancer’s right runs back towards seat 1.

Q sits in the middle, seat 5, and W - Jhumur, facing north - is third from the right end, seat 7. The Bihu dancer faces opposite to X, so north, has south-facing neighbours on both sides, sits two places to the Kathak dancer’s right and next to neither the Jhumur nor the Odissi dancer; with Odissi and Kathak together, facing alike and one of them at an end, that forces Odissi to seat 1 and Kathak to seat 2, both facing north, and Bihu to seat 4. Garba sits immediately left of Q, which puts it in seat 6 - so Q faces south. T dances Chhau beside the Giddha dancer with R four places to T’s right, giving T seat 8 facing south and R seat 4. S is neither Kathak nor Giddha and Bhangra lies three to S’s right, settling S in seat 6 and Bhangra in seat 3. V and P sit two apart facing opposite ways and V did not dance Bhangra, so V takes seat 1 and P seat 3, leaving U and X for seats 2 and 9:

1 V Odissi (N) · 2 U Kathak (N) · 3 P Bhangra (S) · 4 R Bihu (N) · 5 Q Lavani (S) · 6 S Garba (S) · 7 W Jhumur (N) · 8 T Chhau (S) · 9 X Giddha (S)

Q faces south, so Q’s left runs towards seat 9: seats 6, 7 and 8. The third of them is seat 8, T - the Chhau dancer.

Answer: B

Correct answer: W, X

The dancers face different ways, so each one’s own left and right must be used: a north-facing dancer’s right runs towards seat 9, a south-facing dancer’s right runs back towards seat 1.

Q sits in the middle, seat 5, and W - Jhumur, facing north - is third from the right end, seat 7. The Bihu dancer faces opposite to X, so north, has south-facing neighbours on both sides, sits two places to the Kathak dancer’s right and next to neither the Jhumur nor the Odissi dancer; with Odissi and Kathak together, facing alike and one of them at an end, that forces Odissi to seat 1 and Kathak to seat 2, both facing north, and Bihu to seat 4. Garba sits immediately left of Q, which puts it in seat 6 - so Q faces south. T dances Chhau beside the Giddha dancer with R four places to T’s right, giving T seat 8 facing south and R seat 4. S is neither Kathak nor Giddha and Bhangra lies three to S’s right, settling S in seat 6 and Bhangra in seat 3. V and P sit two apart facing opposite ways and V did not dance Bhangra, so V takes seat 1 and P seat 3, leaving U and X for seats 2 and 9:

1 V Odissi (N) · 2 U Kathak (N) · 3 P Bhangra (S) · 4 R Bihu (N) · 5 Q Lavani (S) · 6 S Garba (S) · 7 W Jhumur (N) · 8 T Chhau (S) · 9 X Giddha (S)

T dances Chhau from seat 8, so the dancers on either side are seat 7 and seat 9 - W and X.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Lavani

The dancers face different ways, so each one’s own left and right must be used: a north-facing dancer’s right runs towards seat 9, a south-facing dancer’s right runs back towards seat 1.

Q sits in the middle, seat 5, and W - Jhumur, facing north - is third from the right end, seat 7. The Bihu dancer faces opposite to X, so north, has south-facing neighbours on both sides, sits two places to the Kathak dancer’s right and next to neither the Jhumur nor the Odissi dancer; with Odissi and Kathak together, facing alike and one of them at an end, that forces Odissi to seat 1 and Kathak to seat 2, both facing north, and Bihu to seat 4. Garba sits immediately left of Q, which puts it in seat 6 - so Q faces south. T dances Chhau beside the Giddha dancer with R four places to T’s right, giving T seat 8 facing south and R seat 4. S is neither Kathak nor Giddha and Bhangra lies three to S’s right, settling S in seat 6 and Bhangra in seat 3. V and P sit two apart facing opposite ways and V did not dance Bhangra, so V takes seat 1 and P seat 3, leaving U and X for seats 2 and 9:

1 V Odissi (N) · 2 U Kathak (N) · 3 P Bhangra (S) · 4 R Bihu (N) · 5 Q Lavani (S) · 6 S Garba (S) · 7 W Jhumur (N) · 8 T Chhau (S) · 9 X Giddha (S)

Q occupies seat 5, where the dance is Lavani.

Answer: D

Correct answer: V, X

The dancers face different ways, so each one’s own left and right must be used: a north-facing dancer’s right runs towards seat 9, a south-facing dancer’s right runs back towards seat 1.

Q sits in the middle, seat 5, and W - Jhumur, facing north - is third from the right end, seat 7. The Bihu dancer faces opposite to X, so north, has south-facing neighbours on both sides, sits two places to the Kathak dancer’s right and next to neither the Jhumur nor the Odissi dancer; with Odissi and Kathak together, facing alike and one of them at an end, that forces Odissi to seat 1 and Kathak to seat 2, both facing north, and Bihu to seat 4. Garba sits immediately left of Q, which puts it in seat 6 - so Q faces south. T dances Chhau beside the Giddha dancer with R four places to T’s right, giving T seat 8 facing south and R seat 4. S is neither Kathak nor Giddha and Bhangra lies three to S’s right, settling S in seat 6 and Bhangra in seat 3. V and P sit two apart facing opposite ways and V did not dance Bhangra, so V takes seat 1 and P seat 3, leaving U and X for seats 2 and 9:

1 V Odissi (N) · 2 U Kathak (N) · 3 P Bhangra (S) · 4 R Bihu (N) · 5 Q Lavani (S) · 6 S Garba (S) · 7 W Jhumur (N) · 8 T Chhau (S) · 9 X Giddha (S)

The ends of the row are seats 1 and 9, held by V and X.

Answer: B

Given all eight friends are sitting in two opposite rows, facing each other. Each row has 4 persons. P is between V and Y and are facing north. Z is to the immediate right of Y

Z is opposite to U who is to the immediate left of Q. R is between T and Q.

From the given options VP, YP, UQ, RT Only YP is true because in this second person P is sitting immediate left of the rst person. In all other second person is sitting immediate right to the rst person.

Answer: C

Step 1: P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are sitting on a bench and all of them are facing east. S is sitting fth from the North end and R is to the immediate right of S, but not next to U.

Step 2: Q is at the extreme end and has T as his neighbor and V is between T and U.

Here, P is automatically filled. Clearly, P and Q are sitting at extreme end of the bench.