Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: E

Correct answer: None of these

All seven face the centre, so each player’s right is the next seat anticlockwise. E is the neighbour of both A and D, giving the run D–E–A; F on A’s immediate right takes the seat on A’s other side. B must then sit between F and C, and G falls into the remaining seat, where he is not between F and C. Clockwise the circle reads A → E → D → G → C → B → F - which, read as the players see it from left to right, is A, F, B, C, G, D, E.

F sits on A’s right, not his left; B’s right is C; two to C’s right is D; three to D’s left is B. Every description offered is wrong, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: A

Correct answer: BA

All seven face the centre, so each player’s right is the next seat anticlockwise. E is the neighbour of both A and D, giving the run D–E–A; F on A’s immediate right takes the seat on A’s other side. B must then sit between F and C, and G falls into the remaining seat, where he is not between F and C. Clockwise the circle reads A → E → D → G → C → B → F - which, read as the players see it from left to right, is A, F, B, C, G, D, E.

B and A have C, G, D, E on one side of them and F on the other, so B and A are not neighbours. C–B, D–E and G–D are each adjacent pairs.

Answer: A

Correct answer: H

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Place M, then P three seats to M’s left; T two seats beyond P, N two the other way, W two to M’s right and R two to W’s right. Only two seats remain, and F cannot be P’s neighbour, so F takes the far one and H the near one. Clockwise the circle reads M → N → H → P → R → T → W → F.

P’s right is the seat anticlockwise from her, and H occupies it. R is on P’s left.

Answer: E

Correct answer: None of these

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Place M, then P three seats to M’s left; T two seats beyond P, N two the other way, W two to M’s right and R two to W’s right. Only two seats remain, and F cannot be P’s neighbour, so F takes the far one and H the near one. Clockwise the circle reads M → N → H → P → R → T → W → F.

The seat to H’s right is N’s - and N is not among the choices offered, so the answer is none of these. The arrangement is fully determined, so the data are not inadequate.

Answer: D

Correct answer: T

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Place M, then P three seats to M’s left; T two seats beyond P, N two the other way, W two to M’s right and R two to W’s right. Only two seats remain, and F cannot be P’s neighbour, so F takes the far one and H the near one. Clockwise the circle reads M → N → H → P → R → T → W → F.

R’s left is the next seat clockwise, which belongs to T. P is on R’s right.

Answer: D

Correct answer: F

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Place M, then P three seats to M’s left; T two seats beyond P, N two the other way, W two to M’s right and R two to W’s right. Only two seats remain, and F cannot be P’s neighbour, so F takes the far one and H the near one. Clockwise the circle reads M → N → H → P → R → T → W → F.

Counting three seats to H’s right - anticlockwise - gives N, M, F.

Answer: C

Correct answer: T

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Place M, then P three seats to M’s left; T two seats beyond P, N two the other way, W two to M’s right and R two to W’s right. Only two seats remain, and F cannot be P’s neighbour, so F takes the far one and H the near one. Clockwise the circle reads M → N → H → P → R → T → W → F.

Two seats to F’s right - anticlockwise - gives W and then T.

Answer: A

Correct answer: NHM

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Place M, then P three seats to M’s left; T two seats beyond P, N two the other way, W two to M’s right and R two to W’s right. Only two seats remain, and F cannot be P’s neighbour, so F takes the far one and H the near one. Clockwise the circle reads M → N → H → P → R → T → W → F.

In the group NHM the first named, N, sits directly between H and M - H on one side, M on the other. In each of the other groups the first person is not between the other two.

Answer: C

Correct answer: F

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix C, put F three seats to C’s right, and H two seats to F’s right. G, A and E then fit in only one way, since A is two to G’s right and E immediately to A’s right; and of the last two seats D must take the one that touches neither C nor H. Clockwise the circle reads C → E → A → H → G → F → D → B.

G and D have exactly one seat between them, and F occupies it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Both II & III

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix C, put F three seats to C’s right, and H two seats to F’s right. G, A and E then fit in only one way, since A is two to G’s right and E immediately to A’s right; and of the last two seats D must take the one that touches neither C nor H. Clockwise the circle reads C → E → A → H → G → F → D → B.

Counting four seats to H’s right lands on B; so does counting four to H’s left - in a circle of eight, four steps either way reach the same seat, the one directly opposite. So II and III are both correct, while two seats away in either direction gives G or A.