Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Second to the right

Facing the centre, each friend’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix E; D sits three to E’s left and A two to D’s left. B is two to G’s right, H three to B’s right and C three to G’s right, so choosing G’s seat fixes three others - and only one choice leaves G clear of E. F takes the seat left over. Clockwise the table reads E → C → B → D → G → A → F → H.

Counting two seats to H’s right - anticlockwise - gives F and then A. Two seats to H’s left would reach C instead.

Answer: C

Correct answer: DA

Facing the centre, each friend’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix E; D sits three to E’s left and A two to D’s left. B is two to G’s right, H three to B’s right and C three to G’s right, so choosing G’s seat fixes three others - and only one choice leaves G clear of E. F takes the seat left over. Clockwise the table reads E → C → B → D → G → A → F → H.

In CH, FG, BE and GB the second person named sits second to the right of the first - two seats anticlockwise. In DA the second person sits two seats the other way, to D’s left, so that pair does not belong.

Answer: E

Correct answer: None of these

Facing the centre, each friend’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix E; D sits three to E’s left and A two to D’s left. B is two to G’s right, H three to B’s right and C three to G’s right, so choosing G’s seat fixes three others - and only one choice leaves G clear of E. F takes the seat left over. Clockwise the table reads E → C → B → D → G → A → F → H.

To sit on someone’s immediate left is to occupy the next seat clockwise from them. B sits on D’s right, not his left; H on E’s right; A on F’s right; and D on G’s right. No pair matches, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: A

Correct answer: R

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix P; V sits two to P’s left and W two beyond V. Of the two ways to place Q with T three seats to Q’s right, only one keeps T off V’s shoulder, and R and S then fit in one way only. Clockwise the circle reads P → Q → V → S → W → T → R.

Counting two seats to Q’s right - anticlockwise - gives P and then R.

Answer: D

Correct answer: W

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix P; V sits two to P’s left and W two beyond V. Of the two ways to place Q with T three seats to Q’s right, only one keeps T off V’s shoulder, and R and S then fit in one way only. Clockwise the circle reads P → Q → V → S → W → T → R.

S’s left is the next seat clockwise, and W occupies it. V is on S’s right.

Answer: B

Correct answer: T

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix P; V sits two to P’s left and W two beyond V. Of the two ways to place Q with T three seats to Q’s right, only one keeps T off V’s shoulder, and R and S then fit in one way only. Clockwise the circle reads P → Q → V → S → W → T → R.

R’s right is the next seat anticlockwise, which belongs to T. The arrangement is fully determined, so the data are not inadequate.

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. Fix P; V sits two to P’s left and W two beyond V. Of the two ways to place Q with T three seats to Q’s right, only one keeps T off V’s shoulder, and R and S then fit in one way only. Clockwise the circle reads P → Q → V → S → W → T → R.

Taking each group in turn: R sits between T and P, not between P and Q; T between W and R; Q between P and V; and Q again between P and V, not between V and S. No group has its first member between the other two, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: A

Correct answer: T

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix P; V sits two to P’s left and W two beyond V. Of the two ways to place Q with T three seats to Q’s right, only one keeps T off V’s shoulder, and R and S then fit in one way only. Clockwise the circle reads P → Q → V → S → W → T → R.

Counting three seats to V’s left - clockwise - gives S, W and then T.

Answer: A

Correct answer: F

Facing the centre, each friend’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix B; G takes the seat on B’s right, E sits three to G’s left, and A three to B’s right. Of the two ways to place F with H two seats to F’s right, only one keeps F away from E; and of the last two seats, D must take the one that does not touch B. Clockwise the circle reads B → C → E → D → H → A → F → G.

Counting two seats to B’s right - anticlockwise - gives G and then F.

Answer: D

Correct answer: HD

Facing the centre, each friend’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix B; G takes the seat on B’s right, E sits three to G’s left, and A three to B’s right. Of the two ways to place F with H two seats to F’s right, only one keeps F away from E; and of the last two seats, D must take the one that does not touch B. Clockwise the circle reads B → C → E → D → H → A → F → G.

To sit on someone’s immediate left is to occupy the next seat clockwise from them. H occupies exactly that seat with respect to D. In the other pairs the first person sits on the second’s right, or nowhere near.