Read the information given below carefully and answer the question that follows:
I. A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a circular table though not necessarily in the same order and each of them is facing to the center;
II. A is the only one sitting between D and E;
III. Third from the left of E, C is sitting;
IV. F is to the immediate right of B; &
V. D is sitting at the right of B separated by two persons.
Starting from A, what would be the clockwise order of sitting around the table?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → ADCFBE
When everyone faces the centre, a person’s left is the clockwise direction and the right is anticlockwise. The seats are counted clockwise from A.
Clue II: A is the only one between D and E, so D and E sit on either side of A, in the 2nd and 6th seats.
Try E in the 2nd seat and D in the 6th. C is third to the left of E, that is 3 seats clockwise: the 5th seat. D is on B’s right with two persons between, so B is 3 seats clockwise from D: the 3rd seat. F is immediately to B’s right, one seat anticlockwise from B: the 2nd seat, which is E’s. This case fails.
So D is in the 2nd seat and E in the 6th. C, 3 seats clockwise from E, is in the 3rd seat (counting E’s 6th, then A’s 1st, D’s 2nd, C’s 3rd).
B is 3 seats clockwise from D: the 5th seat; F, immediately to B’s right, is in the 4th seat.
