Study the following information to answer the given question :
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight family members sitting around a circle facing towards the centre.
(i) H is on the immediate left of A but is not the neighbour of E or D.
(ii) F is on the immediate right of B and G is the neighbour of E.
(iii) C is between E and F.
What is the position of D?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → on the immediate left of B
When people sit round a circle facing the centre, each person’s left is the clockwise direction and the right is anticlockwise.
H is on the immediate left of A, so H sits just clockwise of A.
F is on the immediate right of B, so F sits just anticlockwise of B.
C is between E and F, and G is the neighbour of E, so going anticlockwise from B the seats are F, C, E, G in a row.
The block B, F, C, E, G and the remaining person D fill the six seats from H round to A. H’s other neighbour cannot be E or D, so G sits next to H, and the block runs G, E, C, F, B clockwise from H.
The one seat left, between B and A, goes to D. It is just clockwise of B, so D is on the immediate left of B.
