Read the following information carefully and answer the question.
1. Six persons K, L, M, N, O and P are sitting in two rows, three in each.
2. O is not at the end of any row.
3. N is second to the left of P.
4. M, the neighbour of O, is sitting diagonally opposite to N.
5. L is the neighbour of P.
Which of the following pairs will sit opposite each other?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → K, N
Each row has two end seats and one middle seat; two persons sit opposite each other when they are in the same position in the two rows. The clues are placed one at a time:
N is second to the left of P, so N and P take the two ends of one row (Row 1) with one seat between them.
L is the neighbour of P; the only free seat next to P is the middle one, so Row 1 is N, L, P.
O is not at an end, so O takes the middle of Row 2, opposite L.
M, the neighbour of O, sits diagonally opposite N: M takes the end of Row 2 opposite P.
K takes the last seat, the end of Row 2 opposite N.
