Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: W

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix K, put P three seats to K’s right and D two to P’s right. Of the ways of placing W with T three seats to W’s right, only one keeps W away from D’s side, and M three to R’s left then falls into place. Clockwise the circle reads K → M → D → T → P → R → W.

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

Answer: C

Correct answer: D

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix K, put P three seats to K’s right and D two to P’s right. Of the ways of placing W with T three seats to W’s right, only one keeps W away from D’s side, and M three to R’s left then falls into place. Clockwise the circle reads K → M → D → T → P → R → W.

M’s left is the next seat clockwise, which belongs to D. K is on M’s right.

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 K, put P three seats to K’s right and D two to P’s right. Of the ways of placing W with T three seats to W’s right, only one keeps W away from D’s side, and M three to R’s left then falls into place. Clockwise the circle reads K → M → D → T → P → R → W.

Three seats to D’s left - clockwise - gives T, P and then R. R is not among the choices, so the answer is none of these; the arrangement itself is fully determined.

Answer: A

Correct answer: E

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix D; F takes the seat on D’s right, and since F is three to A’s left, A is fixed too, as is G three to D’s left. B must sit beside G but not beside D; C may touch neither D nor A; and E may not touch D. Those three conditions leave only one filling. Clockwise the circle reads D → H → B → G → A → E → C → F.

A’s left is the next seat clockwise, and E occupies it. G is on A’s right.

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 D; F takes the seat on D’s right, and since F is three to A’s left, A is fixed too, as is G three to D’s left. B must sit beside G but not beside D; C may touch neither D nor A; and E may not touch D. Those three conditions leave only one filling. Clockwise the circle reads D → H → B → G → A → E → C → F.

H sits third to C’s left. Two to C’s left is D, one to her right is E, two to her right is A and three to her right is G - so none of the descriptions offered fits, and the answer is none of these.

Answer: C

Correct answer: HB

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix D; F takes the seat on D’s right, and since F is three to A’s left, A is fixed too, as is G three to D’s left. B must sit beside G but not beside D; C may touch neither D nor A; and E may not touch D. Those three conditions leave only one filling. Clockwise the circle reads D → H → B → G → A → E → C → F.

Between G and D, counting the short way round, sit B and then H - the pair HB. The other side of the circle holds five people, so this is the pair the question means.

Answer: B

Correct answer: C

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix D; F takes the seat on D’s right, and since F is three to A’s left, A is fixed too, as is G three to D’s left. B must sit beside G but not beside D; C may touch neither D nor A; and E may not touch D. Those three conditions leave only one filling. Clockwise the circle reads D → H → B → G → A → E → C → F.

Keeping A where she is and running the alphabet clockwise puts B, C, D, E, F, G, H in the seats after her. Comparing with the original circle, every letter lands somewhere new except C, who already sits two seats clockwise of A and stays exactly where she was.

Answer: D

Correct answer: BG

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix D; F takes the seat on D’s right, and since F is three to A’s left, A is fixed too, as is G three to D’s left. B must sit beside G but not beside D; C may touch neither D nor A; and E may not touch D. Those three conditions leave only one filling. Clockwise the circle reads D → H → B → G → A → E → C → F.

In FH, GE, CD and EF the two people named have exactly one person sitting between them - D, A, F and C respectively. In BG the two sit side by side with nobody between, so that pair is the odd one out.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Mukta

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.

Priya’s right is the seat anticlockwise from her, which is Mukta’s. Meeta is on Priya’s left.

Answer: E

Correct answer: None of these

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.

Two seats to Rani’s left - clockwise - gives Sudha and then Geeta. Geeta is not among the choices, so the answer is none of these.