Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

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: B

Correct answer: F and C

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 sits with F on one side and C on the other, so those two are his neighbours.

Answer: C

Correct answer: EA

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.

A player’s right is the next seat anticlockwise. Taking each pair in turn, only in EA does the second sit immediately to the first’s right: A is on E’s right. In CB, DG and AB the second person is elsewhere.

Answer: D

Correct answer: FBC

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.

Read in the order the players themselves would call left to right - the direction of each one’s right hand - the circle runs A, F, B, C, G, D, E. F, B and C therefore appear consecutively in that order; the other groups do not.

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: B

Correct answer: 3 or 4

F sits with only B, so that bench holds exactly those two. A is on bench I and G on bench III. C will not sit with A, E or D, so she must join G on bench III, which leaves D and E to sit with A. The benches are therefore I: A, D, E - II: F, B - III: C, G. Each bench needs a girl: C covers III, so B must be the girl on II, and one of A and D the girl on I - D, since the group of girls named is B, C and D.

Three girls are certain: C on bench III, B - who must be the girl on bench II, since F is a boy - and D on bench I, E being C’s brother and therefore a boy. Nothing tells us whether G is a girl or a boy, because C already satisfies bench III’s requirement. So the total is 3 or 4.