Linear Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Q

All six face the centre, so each person’s left is the next seat clockwise. Q must sit between R and S, keeping those three together; P two seats clockwise of U and T two seats clockwise of S then leave one arrangement. Clockwise the table reads U → T → P → R → Q → S.

T is three seats from Q either way round, so they sit opposite each other. The arrangement is fully determined, so the position is not in doubt.

Answer: B

Correct answer: N

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

O faces north, so her right is east. Three places that way - P, Q, then N - brings us to the far end of the ladies’ row.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Q

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

After the three moves, B stands where E did, E where Q did and Q where B did. The person facing O is then B; and B, being a man, has his left to the east, where two places along sits Q in her new seat.

Answer: D

Correct answer: AM

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

A stands at the eastern end of the men’s row and M at the western end of the ladies’ row, so A and M occupy opposite corners. C and N are the other such pair; the rest sit directly facing or well within the rows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

After the exchanges, two places to P’s right brings us to B in the ladies’ row; the person facing her is Q, now in the men’s row. Q faces south, so her right is west, and two places that way is A.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A

The men face south and the ladies north, so they face each other; a man’s left is east and a lady’s left is west. M is at an end with O next to her right, so M and O take the two westernmost places in the ladies’ row. E faces O, P lies west of Q, and B lies east of D and faces Q - which fixes B and D. C and N are at opposite corners, as are A and M. Reading both rows from west to east: men C, E, D, B, A and ladies M, O, P, Q, N, each man directly facing the lady above him in that list.

N stands at the eastern end of the ladies’ row, and the man directly facing her is A.

Answer: C

Correct answer: G and B

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

C stands third, so the only people to his left are G and B.

Answer: A

Correct answer: E is to the immediate left of D

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

E stands to D’s right, not his left, so that statement is not true. The others hold: A is at the right-hand end, G is immediately left of B, and F is second to D’s right.

Answer: B

Correct answer: C and G

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

B stands second, with G on one side and C on the other.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Extreme right

All seven face north, so right means east. E sits four places to G’s right with F immediately beyond, and the person three places to D’s left is at an end - which puts D fourth. C must lie between B and D, and only one filling satisfies all of it. From left to right the row reads G, B, C, D, E, F, A.

A occupies the seventh and last place in the row - the extreme right.