Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: B

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix F; A sits two to F’s left, C three to F’s right, B two beyond C and H four to B’s left - one chain filling five seats. D two seats to G’s right then fits the remaining three in only one way. Clockwise the circle reads F → E → A → H → D → C → G → B.

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

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 F; A sits two to F’s left, C three to F’s right, B two beyond C and H four to B’s left - one chain filling five seats. D two seats to G’s right then fits the remaining three in only one way. Clockwise the circle reads F → E → A → H → D → C → G → B.

Counting three seats to B’s left - clockwise - gives F, E and then A. A is not among the choices offered, so the answer is none of these; the arrangement itself is fully determined.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Fourth to the right

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix F; A sits two to F’s left, C three to F’s right, B two beyond C and H four to B’s left - one chain filling five seats. D two seats to G’s right then fits the remaining three in only one way. Clockwise the circle reads F → E → A → H → D → C → G → B.

Counting four seats to A’s right - anticlockwise - gives E, F, B and then G. Four seats to A’s left reach the same seat, since the circle holds eight, but of the descriptions offered only fourth to the right appears.

Answer: C

Correct answer: DAH

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix F; A sits two to F’s left, C three to F’s right, B two beyond C and H four to B’s left - one chain filling five seats. D two seats to G’s right then fits the remaining three in only one way. Clockwise the circle reads F → E → A → H → D → C → G → B.

In DAH the third person named, H, sits directly between the other two, with A on one side and D on the other. In each of the remaining groups the third person is not between the first two.

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 S; P sits two to S’s left, M three beyond P and T three to S’s left. Of the three seats left, Q must take the one that does not touch S and N the one that does not touch M, leaving R the last. Clockwise the circle reads S → N → P → T → Q → M → R.

Counting three seats to N’s right - anticlockwise - gives S, R and then M. M is not among the choices offered, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: C

Correct answer: S

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix S; P sits two to S’s left, M three beyond P and T three to S’s left. Of the three seats left, Q must take the one that does not touch S and N the one that does not touch M, leaving R the last. Clockwise the circle reads S → N → P → T → Q → M → R.

Counting two seats to M’s left - clockwise - gives R and then S. The arrangement is fully determined, so the position can indeed be settled.

Answer: C

Correct answer: N

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix S; P sits two to S’s left, M three beyond P and T three to S’s left. Of the three seats left, Q must take the one that does not touch S and N the one that does not touch M, leaving R the last. Clockwise the circle reads S → N → P → T → Q → M → R.

P and S have exactly one seat between them, and N occupies it. R sits on the far side of S, not between the two.

Answer: D

Correct answer: two or three

Facing the centre, each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise. Fix S; P sits two to S’s left, M three beyond P and T three to S’s left. Of the three seats left, Q must take the one that does not touch S and N the one that does not touch M, leaving R the last. Clockwise the circle reads S → N → P → T → Q → M → R.

Q and S are not opposite, so the two arcs between them are of different lengths: going one way past M and R gives two people, going the other past T, P and N gives three. Since the question does not say which way round to count, both answers stand.

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 S; P sits two to S’s left, M three beyond P and T three to S’s left. Of the three seats left, Q must take the one that does not touch S and N the one that does not touch M, leaving R the last. Clockwise the circle reads S → N → P → T → Q → M → R.

T and M have exactly one seat between them, and Q occupies it. Q alone is not among the choices offered, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: A

Correct answer: A

Everyone faces the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

Put G in place. The politician sits three to G’s right, and C beside G; of C’s two possible seats, only one leaves room for an architect two seats to C’s right without clashing with the politician. B three to H’s right, with H barred from both the politician’s and the architect’s seat, then leaves one workable placing, and A and F must be neighbours with neither of them the politician - which forces E into the politician’s seat and settles A and F. The banker two to A’s left and the doctor two to A’s right complete the picture.

Clockwise the table reads G (pilot) → C (engineer) → H (doctor) → F (teacher) → A (businessman) → E (politician) → D (banker) → B (architect). The teacher is two seats from C as required, the engineer three from D, and the pilot G is clear of the politician.

The professions fall out as shown, and the businessman is A.