A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a square table facing the centre of the table. Four of them are sitting at each of the corners, while the other four are sitting at the exact centre of each of the sides.
B sits at one of the corners of the table. Only two people sit between B and D. C sits second to the right of D. Only three people sit between C and A. E sits to the immediate left of A. F sits second to the right of G. Who sits second to the left of H?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → C
Corner seats and side-centre seats alternate round the table. Everyone faces the centre, so (seen from above) a person’s left is clockwise and his right is anticlockwise.
B is at a corner, and two people sit between B and D, so D is the third seat from B, which is a side-centre seat.
If D is three seats clockwise from B:
C, second to the right of D, sits next to B on the clockwise side.
A, with three people between it and C, sits opposite C.
E, to the immediate left of A, is the next seat clockwise from A.
The seats left for F, G and H are the two corners beside D and the side-centre seat next to B; F second to the right of G puts G at the corner after D and F at the corner before D, so H takes the side-centre seat.
If D were three seats anticlockwise from B, C and A would follow in the same way, but E would then need B’s own seat, so this case fails.
From H, going to the left (clockwise), the first seat is B and the second is C.
