Circular Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The person third to the right of C is B.

Number the seats 1 to 5 from west to east. The girls face north, so a girl's right is east; the boys face south, so a boy's left is east. C is just right of A and A is at an end, so A is in seat 1 and C in seat 2, and t, opposite C, is in seat 2. q is just to the left of s, so q sits one seat east of s, opposite E. B and r are diagonally opposite, at opposite ends of the two rows. If s and q took seats 4 and 5, E would be at seat 5 and B could not be at an end, so s is in seat 3, q and E in seat 4, r in seat 1 and B in seat 5. That leaves p in seat 5 and D in seat 3.

C faces north, so her right is east, towards seats 3, 4 and 5. Counting three places from seat 2 reaches seat 5, which is B.

D (seat 3) is first to her right and E (seat 4) second; A is on her left, not her right.

Answer: C

The diagonally opposite pair is Ap.

Number the seats 1 to 5 from west to east. The girls face north, so a girl's right is east; the boys face south, so a boy's left is east. C is just right of A and A is at an end, so A is in seat 1 and C in seat 2, and t, opposite C, is in seat 2. q is just to the left of s, so q sits one seat east of s, opposite E. B and r are diagonally opposite, at opposite ends of the two rows. If s and q took seats 4 and 5, E would be at seat 5 and B could not be at an end, so s is in seat 3, q and E in seat 4, r in seat 1 and B in seat 5. That leaves p in seat 5 and D in seat 3.

A sits at seat 1 in the girls' row and p at seat 5 in the boys' row, the two opposite ends of the arrangement, as B and r are.

C and t both sit at seat 2 and E and q both at seat 4, so those pairs face each other directly rather than diagonally. D (seat 3) and p (seat 5) are neither directly nor diagonally opposite.

Answer: B

The person is p.

Number the seats 1 to 5 from west to east. The girls face north, so a girl's right is east; the boys face south, so a boy's left is east. C is just right of A and A is at an end, so A is in seat 1 and C in seat 2, and t, opposite C, is in seat 2. q is just to the left of s, so q sits one seat east of s, opposite E. B and r are diagonally opposite, at opposite ends of the two rows. If s and q took seats 4 and 5, E would be at seat 5 and B could not be at an end, so s is in seat 3, q and E in seat 4, r in seat 1 and B in seat 5. That leaves p in seat 5 and D in seat 3.

After the interchanges, C and D swap seats 2 and 3, p and t swap seats 2 and 5, and q and E swap rows at seat 4. The girls' row reads A, D, C, q, B and the boys' row r, p, s, E, t, each person taking the direction of the row they sit in.

D is now in seat 2 facing north, so second to her right is seat 4, where q sits. Opposite q is E, now in the boys' row facing south, whose right is west. Second to the right of E is seat 2, which is p.

r is third to E's right, one place too far; E is the person opposite q, not the answer; and C is in the girls' row, nowhere near E's right.

Answer: C

Y is facing North.

Partners sit opposite each other at a carrom board: X faces Z, and W faces Y. Z is facing west, so Z sits on the east side. Facing west, Z's right is towards the north, so W, on Z's right, sits on the north side facing south.

Y, W's partner, sits opposite W on the south side and faces the centre, that is, north. West is Z's direction and south is W's.

Answer: B

The player facing south is C.

In a game of cards the four players sit round the table, partners facing each other. A and B are partners, so if A faces west, B faces east. That leaves C and D as the other pair of partners, facing each other along the north-south line.

D faces north, so his partner C, sitting opposite, faces south. A and B face west and east, so neither of them, and not D, faces south.

Answer: A

The person to the immediate right of P is H.

For people facing the centre, a person's left runs clockwise and right anticlockwise. Number the seats clockwise 0 to 7 with M at 0.

• P is third to the left of M: seat 3. P is second to the right of T, so T is at seat 5.
• N is second to the right of P: seat 1.
• W is second to the right of M: seat 6; R is second to the right of W: seat 4.
• Seats 2 and 7 remain for F and H. F is not next to P (seats 2 and 4), so F is at 7 and H at 2.

P's immediate right is the next seat anticlockwise, seat 2, which is H. R sits on P's immediate left, and F and W are not P's neighbours.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Lalit

Everyone faces the centre, so each person’s right is the next seat anticlockwise and each person’s left the next seat clockwise. Prakash and Mukesh sit opposite, three seats apart; Deepa must sit next to Prakash with Pankaj beyond her, and Priti next to Mukesh with Lalit beyond her. That fixes the circle, clockwise, as Prakash → Deepa → Pankaj → Mukesh → Priti → Lalit.

Prakash’s right is the seat anticlockwise from him, which is Lalit’s. Deepa sits on his left.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Lalit

Going clockwise the six sit as Prakash, Deepa, Pankaj, Mukesh, Priti, Lalit. This follows from Prakash and Mukesh being opposite each other, Deepa sitting between Prakash and Pankaj, and Priti between Mukesh and Lalit.

In a circle of six, each person faces the one three places away. Counting three from Pankaj gives Lalit.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Deepa and Lalit

Going clockwise the six sit as Prakash, Deepa, Pankaj, Mukesh, Priti, Lalit. This follows from Prakash and Mukesh being opposite each other, Deepa sitting between Prakash and Pankaj, and Priti between Mukesh and Lalit.

Prakash therefore has Deepa on one side and Lalit on the other, Lalit closing the circle back round to him.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Pankaj

Going clockwise the six sit as Prakash, Deepa, Pankaj, Mukesh, Priti, Lalit. This follows from Prakash and Mukesh being opposite each other, Deepa sitting between Prakash and Pankaj, and Priti between Mukesh and Lalit.

Since all six face the centre, each person’s left hand points along the clockwise direction of the seating. The next seat clockwise from Deepa is Pankaj’s.