Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Geeta-Sudha

Facing the centre, each woman’s left is the next seat clockwise and her right the next seat anticlockwise. Place Mukta, then Ashwini three seats to her left, and Rani immediately beyond Ashwini. Geeta and Priya, two seats apart, fit the remaining seats in only one way, and of the last two Meeta must take the seat that does not touch Geeta. Clockwise the circle reads Mukta → Priya → Meeta → Ashwini → Rani → Sudha → Geeta.

To sit on someone’s immediate left is to occupy the next seat clockwise from them. Geeta occupies exactly that seat with respect to Sudha. In each of the other pairs the first person sits on the second’s right, or not beside her at all.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Sudha-Rani-Geeta

Facing the centre, each woman’s left is the next seat clockwise and her right the next seat anticlockwise. Place Mukta, then Ashwini three seats to her left, and Rani immediately beyond Ashwini. Geeta and Priya, two seats apart, fit the remaining seats in only one way, and of the last two Meeta must take the seat that does not touch Geeta. Clockwise the circle reads Mukta → Priya → Meeta → Ashwini → Rani → Sudha → Geeta.

In Sudha-Rani-Geeta the first named, Sudha, sits directly between the other two, with Rani on one side and Geeta on the other. In the other groups the first person is not between the two that follow.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Both I & III

Facing the centre, each woman’s left is the next seat clockwise and her right the next seat anticlockwise. Place Mukta, then Ashwini three seats to her left, and Rani immediately beyond Ashwini. Geeta and Priya, two seats apart, fit the remaining seats in only one way, and of the last two Meeta must take the seat that does not touch Geeta. Clockwise the circle reads Mukta → Priya → Meeta → Ashwini → Rani → Sudha → Geeta.

Counting three seats to Mukta’s right - anticlockwise - gives Geeta, Sudha, Rani. Counting four to Mukta’s left - clockwise - gives Priya, Meeta, Ashwini, Rani. In a circle of seven those two counts must reach the same seat, since \( 3 + 4 = 7 \), so statements I and III are both correct.

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.

Answer: A

Correct answer: A

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.

Two seats to C’s left - clockwise - gives E and then A.

Answer: E

Correct answer: DB

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.

A person’s right is the seat anticlockwise from them. Of the pairs offered, only in DB does the first sit on the second’s right: D occupies the seat to B’s right.

Answer: B

Correct answer: B

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.

C’s right is the seat anticlockwise from her, and B occupies it. E is on C’s left, and D sits two places away, so there is no ambiguity between B and D.

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.