Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: B

Four face outward and four face the centre, so “left” and “right” must be read from each person’s own seat: facing the centre, the left is clockwise; facing outward, the left is anticlockwise.

E faces outward, so H two seats to E’s right and B three to E’s left are placed at once - and B can only be three seats to H’s right if H too faces outward. D faces the centre with both neighbours facing outward, which rules out every seat but one, and F must then sit beside D. Of the seats left, C and G must be neighbours, which forces A into the seat beside E, with G two to A’s left and C beyond.

Clockwise the circle reads E → A → H → G → C → B → F → D, with E, H and F facing outward and A and D facing the centre.

F and C have exactly one seat between them, and B occupies it - so B sits between the two and is a neighbour of each.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Second to the right

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

The family sorts itself out first. A is the father of G and F, and H is his wife - so H’s husband is A. D is H’s brother, B is H’s mother, E is D’s daughter, and C is G’s child. Then B sits two to A’s left, D immediately to B’s left, and since B may have no female beside her, the remaining male, C, takes the seat on her other side. F is two seats from A, E two to F’s right, and of the last two seats G must take the one away from E.

Clockwise the circle reads A → C → B → D → E → H → F → G, with A, C and D the three men.

A’s mother-in-law is B, the mother of his wife H. Counting two seats to B’s right - anticlockwise - gives C and then A, so A sits second to her right.

Answer: C

Correct answer: E

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

The family sorts itself out first. A is the father of G and F, and H is his wife - so H’s husband is A. D is H’s brother, B is H’s mother, E is D’s daughter, and C is G’s child. Then B sits two to A’s left, D immediately to B’s left, and since B may have no female beside her, the remaining male, C, takes the seat on her other side. F is two seats from A, E two to F’s right, and of the last two seats G must take the one away from E.

Clockwise the circle reads A → C → B → D → E → H → F → G, with A, C and D the three men.

D is H’s brother, and the person described as D’s daughter sits two seats to F’s right - the seat occupied by E. G and F are A’s daughters and C is G’s child, so none of them can be D’s.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Immediate right

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

The family sorts itself out first. A is the father of G and F, and H is his wife - so H’s husband is A. D is H’s brother, B is H’s mother, E is D’s daughter, and C is G’s child. Then B sits two to A’s left, D immediately to B’s left, and since B may have no female beside her, the remaining male, C, takes the seat on her other side. F is two seats from A, E two to F’s right, and of the last two seats G must take the one away from E.

Clockwise the circle reads A → C → B → D → E → H → F → G, with A, C and D the three men.

A’s grandchild is C, the child of his daughter G. A sits in the next seat anticlockwise from C - that is, on C’s immediate right.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Three

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

The family sorts itself out first. A is the father of G and F, and H is his wife - so H’s husband is A. D is H’s brother, B is H’s mother, E is D’s daughter, and C is G’s child. Then B sits two to A’s left, D immediately to B’s left, and since B may have no female beside her, the remaining male, C, takes the seat on her other side. F is two seats from A, E two to F’s right, and of the last two seats G must take the one away from E.

Clockwise the circle reads A → C → B → D → E → H → F → G, with A, C and D the three men.

G’s uncle is D, the brother of her mother H. G and D sit directly opposite each other, so three people lie between them whichever way round you count - A, C and B one way; F, H and E the other.

Answer: B

Correct answer: C

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

The family sorts itself out first. A is the father of G and F, and H is his wife - so H’s husband is A. D is H’s brother, B is H’s mother, E is D’s daughter, and C is G’s child. Then B sits two to A’s left, D immediately to B’s left, and since B may have no female beside her, the remaining male, C, takes the seat on her other side. F is two seats from A, E two to F’s right, and of the last two seats G must take the one away from E.

Clockwise the circle reads A → C → B → D → E → H → F → G, with A, C and D the three men.

F, E, H and G are all female. C, G’s child, is male - which is how he comes to sit beside B, whose neighbours may include no woman - so he is the odd one out.

Answer: E

Correct answer: B is mother of H.

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

The family sorts itself out first. A is the father of G and F, and H is his wife - so H’s husband is A. D is H’s brother, B is H’s mother, E is D’s daughter, and C is G’s child. Then B sits two to A’s left, D immediately to B’s left, and since B may have no female beside her, the remaining male, C, takes the seat on her other side. F is two seats from A, E two to F’s right, and of the last two seats G must take the one away from E.

Clockwise the circle reads A → C → B → D → E → H → F → G, with A, C and D the three men.

B is H’s mother, which is what places D, H’s brother, on her immediate left. The others fail: E is D’s daughter and C is G’s child, so they are not cousins; H and her husband A sit five seats apart; C’s neighbour B is female; and three seats to H’s left is her husband A, not a daughter.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A- Canara Bank

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

Put the Canara representative in place; F sits two seats to his right and the Bank of India representative beside him. B is three seats from Bank of India, and C and E - who must be neighbours and may touch neither B nor Canara - then have only one pair of seats available. D is neither Canara nor Bank of India, and the Bank of Maharashtra representative sits two to D’s right, which fixes D. G must sit beside the UCO representative, B is not UCO, and only one arrangement then satisfies the Punjab National–Syndicate spacing, the single seat between C and Oriental Bank of Commerce, and H three seats to the left of Dena.

Clockwise the table reads H (Canara) → A (Bank of Maharashtra) → B (Syndicate) → D (Oriental Bank of Commerce) → E (Punjab National) → C (Dena) → F (UCO) → G (Bank of India).

In H–UCO, D–Bank of Maharashtra, E–Syndicate and F–Punjab National, each person is paired with the bank whose representative sits second to their right. A–Canara Bank breaks the pattern: the Canara representative, H, sits immediately to A’s right.

Answer: E

Correct answer: The representatives of Bank of Maharashtra and Syndicate Bank are immediate neighbours.

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

Put the Canara representative in place; F sits two seats to his right and the Bank of India representative beside him. B is three seats from Bank of India, and C and E - who must be neighbours and may touch neither B nor Canara - then have only one pair of seats available. D is neither Canara nor Bank of India, and the Bank of Maharashtra representative sits two to D’s right, which fixes D. G must sit beside the UCO representative, B is not UCO, and only one arrangement then satisfies the Punjab National–Syndicate spacing, the single seat between C and Oriental Bank of Commerce, and H three seats to the left of Dena.

Clockwise the table reads H (Canara) → A (Bank of Maharashtra) → B (Syndicate) → D (Oriental Bank of Commerce) → E (Punjab National) → C (Dena) → F (UCO) → G (Bank of India).

A represents Bank of Maharashtra and B Syndicate Bank, and they sit side by side - so that statement holds. Of the others: B is Syndicate, not Bank of Maharashtra; two seats to H’s right is F, not C; the Dena representative C sits to the right of the UCO representative F; and two seats to the right of the Bank of India representative G is C, not A.

Answer: C

Correct answer: H and the representative of Bank of Maharashtra

All eight face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise and their right the next seat anticlockwise.

Put the Canara representative in place; F sits two seats to his right and the Bank of India representative beside him. B is three seats from Bank of India, and C and E - who must be neighbours and may touch neither B nor Canara - then have only one pair of seats available. D is neither Canara nor Bank of India, and the Bank of Maharashtra representative sits two to D’s right, which fixes D. G must sit beside the UCO representative, B is not UCO, and only one arrangement then satisfies the Punjab National–Syndicate spacing, the single seat between C and Oriental Bank of Commerce, and H three seats to the left of Dena.

Clockwise the table reads H (Canara) → A (Bank of Maharashtra) → B (Syndicate) → D (Oriental Bank of Commerce) → E (Punjab National) → C (Dena) → F (UCO) → G (Bank of India).

The Bank of India representative is G, and B sits three seats away with exactly two people between them: H, the Canara representative, and A, who represents the Bank of Maharashtra.