P, Q, R, S and T are sitting around a circular table facing inside. S is to the immediate right of T and is second to the left of P. R is not between P and T. Who is second to the left of T?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → P
For people sitting round a table facing the centre, a person’s left is the clockwise direction (seen from above) and the right is anticlockwise. Five people take the five seats.
Put T at the bottom. S is to the immediate right of T, so S takes the next seat anticlockwise from T.
S is second to the left of P, so S is two seats clockwise from P. P is therefore two seats anticlockwise from S, which is the seat two places clockwise from T.
The two seats left are the one between T and P and the one between P and S. R is not between P and T, so R sits between P and S, and Q between T and P.
Counting two seats clockwise from T gives Q and then P, so P is second to the left of T.