Linear Seating Arrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: Priti and Pankaj

Everyone faces the centre, so each person’s right is the next seat anticlockwise. Prakash and Mukesh sit opposite each other; Deepa must sit next to Prakash with Pankaj beyond her, and Priti next to Mukesh with Lalit beyond her. Clockwise the circle reads Prakash → Deepa → Pankaj → Mukesh → Priti → Lalit.

Mukesh sits with Pankaj on one side and Priti on the other.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Deepa

Everyone faces the centre, so each person’s right is the next seat anticlockwise. Prakash and Mukesh sit opposite each other; Deepa must sit next to Prakash with Pankaj beyond her, and Priti next to Mukesh with Lalit beyond her. Clockwise the circle reads Prakash → Deepa → Pankaj → Mukesh → Priti → Lalit.

Priti’s opposite number is three seats round the circle, which is Deepa.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Fargo and Mercedes

Fiat stands at one end with Ambassador three places to its right; Fargo is four to Fiat’s right and Cadillac next beyond it. Maruti must lie between Ambassador and Bedford, which fills the two remaining places near the Fiat end, and Mercedes takes the last. From left to right the line reads Fiat, Bedford, Maruti, Ambassador, Fargo, Cadillac, Mercedes.

Cadillac stands sixth, with Fargo on one side and Mercedes on the other.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Maruti is next left of Ambassador.

Fiat stands at one end with Ambassador three places to its right; Fargo is four to Fiat’s right and Cadillac next beyond it. Maruti must lie between Ambassador and Bedford, which fills the two remaining places near the Fiat end, and Mercedes takes the last. From left to right the line reads Fiat, Bedford, Maruti, Ambassador, Fargo, Cadillac, Mercedes.

Maruti stands third and Ambassador fourth, so Maruti is immediately to Ambassador’s left. Of the others: Bedford is not next to Fiat on that side, Bedford is not at an end, and Fiat lies two places to Maruti’s left.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Cadillac is next left to Mercedes car.

Fiat stands at one end with Ambassador three places to its right; Fargo is four to Fiat’s right and Cadillac next beyond it. Maruti must lie between Ambassador and Bedford, which fills the two remaining places near the Fiat end, and Mercedes takes the last. From left to right the line reads Fiat, Bedford, Maruti, Ambassador, Fargo, Cadillac, Mercedes.

Cadillac stands sixth and Mercedes seventh, so Cadillac is immediately to Mercedes’s left. Fargo lies between Ambassador and Cadillac rather than between Ambassador and Fiat, Fargo is to Cadillac’s left, and Maruti is not fourth right of Mercedes.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Mercedes, Cadillac and Fargo

Fiat stands at one end with Ambassador three places to its right; Fargo is four to Fiat’s right and Cadillac next beyond it. Maruti must lie between Ambassador and Bedford, which fills the two remaining places near the Fiat end, and Mercedes takes the last. From left to right the line reads Fiat, Bedford, Maruti, Ambassador, Fargo, Cadillac, Mercedes.

Ambassador stands fourth, so the three cars to its right are Fargo, Cadillac and Mercedes.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Fourth to the right of Maruti.

Fiat stands at one end with Ambassador three places to its right; Fargo is four to Fiat’s right and Cadillac next beyond it. Maruti must lie between Ambassador and Bedford, which fills the two remaining places near the Fiat end, and Mercedes takes the last. From left to right the line reads Fiat, Bedford, Maruti, Ambassador, Fargo, Cadillac, Mercedes.

Maruti stands third and Mercedes seventh, so Mercedes is fourth to Maruti’s right. It is not next to Cadillac’s left, nor beside Bedford, nor between Bedford and Fargo.

Answer: D

Correct answer: S

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.

P is three seats from S either way round, so those two sit opposite each other.

Answer: A

Correct answer: P

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.

Counting four seats to Q’s left - clockwise - gives S, U, T and then P.

Answer: B

Correct answer: T and R

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.

P sits with T on one side and R on the other.